Fate, Fortune, and Mysticism in the Peruvian Amazon

A medical anthropologist’s account of fortune-telling and management of one’s own destiny in Peru

• Explains the fortune-telling naipes cards and how Amazonian shamans use them to diagnose clients’ ills

• Looks at the Sacred Mystical Order of Septrionism and its techniques for managing destiny

While studying Amazonian shamans who use ayahuasca and Peruvian coastal healers who use mescaline cact...