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Margaret Mead’s LSD Memo
Manuscript, September 23-25, 1954

Margaret Mead’s LSD Memo

A memo from anthropologist [Margaret Mead](/biographies/margaret-mead)'s papers at the Library of Congress, recording her interest in LSD and other psychedelics in the summer of 1954 and her work with [Harold Abramson](/biographies/harold-abramson)'s research team, including [Conan Kornetsky](/biographies/conan-kornetsky) and [Murray Jarvik](/biographies/murray-jarvik).

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El contexto cultural de un alucinógeno aborigen: Banisteriopsis caapi
Academic Article, 1969

El contexto cultural de un alucinógeno aborigen

Banisteriopsis caapi

A Colombian Amazon ethnographic study placing Tukano use of Banisteriopsis caapi, or yajé, within a wider cultural system of mythology, ritual, symbolism, perception, and social knowledge.

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