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Volume 8, Number 2 • Winter 1988

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  ARTICLES
  Espiritus Incorporados: The Roles of Plants and Animals in the Amazonia Mestizo Folklore
Matti Kamppinen
  The Role of Medicinal Ethnobotany in Ethnomedicine: A New Guinea Example
Borut Telban
  Botanical Life-Forms in European Romany
F. David Mulcahy
  Ethnobotany of Ladakh (India) Plants Used in Health Care
G.M. Buth
Irshad A. Navchoo
  The Utilization of Insects in the Empirical Medicine of Ancient Mexicans
Dra. Julieta Ramos-Elorduy de Conconi
M. En C. Jose Manuel Pino Moreno
  Short Communications: Yacatecan Mayas Knowledge of Pollenation and Breeding Systems
V. Rico-Gray
J.G. Garcia-Franco
A. Chemas
  Recent Doctoral Dissertations of Interest to Ethnobiologists: Fall 1987--Fall 1988
Terence E. Hays
Joseph E. Laferrière
  Ralph N.H. Bulmer (1928-1988)
Terence E. Hays
DEPARTMENTS
Sketches in the Sand
Willard Van Asdall
President's Page
Amadeo M. Rea
News and Comments
Eugene S. Hunn
Abridged Minutes of Business Meeting
Book Review: The Fascinating World of the Nighshades, by Charles B. Heiser, Jr.
Terence E. Hays
Book Review: Pharmacopées traditionnelles en Guyane: Créoles, Palikur, Wayãpi, by Pierre Grenand, Christinan Moretti, and Henri Jacquemin
Darrell Addison Posey
Book Review: Amazon Frontier, by John Hemming
M.J. Plotkin
Book Review: The Peyote Book: A Study of Native Medicine, by G. Mount Arcata
Richard Evans Schultes
Book Review: Late Quaternary Mammalian Biogeography and Environments of the Great Plains and Prairies, edited by Russell W. Graham, Holmes A. Semken, Jr. and Mary Ann Graham
Eileen Johnson
Book Review: Birds of My Kalam Country, by Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer, illustrations by Christopher Healey
Eugene S. Hunn
Book Review: Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, by R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, Jonathan Ott, and Carl A.P. Ruck
Weston LaBarre