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Douglas Sharon's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Douglas Sharon is a Canadian cultural anthropologist , ethnobotanist and shamanism scholar who has directed both the University of California/Berkeley's Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the San Diego Museum of Man. He has conducted more than 40 years of field research and published on pre-Columbian and modern shamanic practices in Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Bolivia.

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Douglas Sharon's Published Works

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Traditional medicinal plant use in Northern Peru: tracking two thousand years of healing culture (2006) (487)
Health for sale: the medicinal plant markets in Trujillo and Chiclayo, Northern Peru (2007) (235)
Proving that Traditional Knowledge Works: The antibacterial activity of Northern Peruvian medicinal plants (2011) (178)
Traditional medicinal plant use in Loja province, Southern Ecuador (2006) (107)
Blending Traditional and Western Medicine: Medicinal plant use among patients at Clinica Anticona in El Porvenir, Peru (2007) (105)
From Garden to Market? The cultivation of native and introduced medicinal plant species in Cajamarca, Peru and implications for habitat conservation (2008) (86)
From Chamomile to Aspirin? Medicinal plant use among clients at laboratorios Beal in Trujillo, Peru (2009) (82)
From Sierra to Coast: Tracing the supply of medicinal plants in Northern Peru – A plant collector’s tale (2008) (58)
Antibacterial activity of medicinal plants of Northern Peru - can traditional applications provide leads for modern science? (2010) (55)
Markets, Healers, Vendors, Collectors: The Sustainability of Medicinal Plant Use in Northern Peru (2009) (55)
Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients in Northern Peru (1993) (53)
Wizard of the Four Winds: A Shaman's Story (1981) (49)
Healing the body and soul: Traditional remedies for "magical" ailments, nervous system and psychosomatic disorders in Northern Peru (2010) (39)
Antibacterial activity of northen-peruvian medicinal plants (2008) (35)
Shadows of the colonial past – diverging plant use in Northern Peru and Southern Ecuador (2009) (34)
Medicinal plants of the Andes and the Amazon - The magic and medicinal flora of Northern Peru (2018) (26)
Peruvian plants canchalagua (Schkuhria pinnata (Lam.) Kuntze), hercampuri (Gentianella alborosea (Gilg.) Fabris), and corpus way (Gentianella bicolor ( Wedd.) J. Pringle) prove to be effective in the treatment of acne (2008) (19)
Naming a phantom – the quest to find the identity of Ulluchu, an unidentified ceremonial plant of the Moche culture in Northern Peru (2009) (19)
Phytochemical analysis of peruvian medicinal plants (2009) (13)
Antibacterial activity of medicinal plants of northern Peru - Part II (2009) (13)
The Magic Cactus: Ethnoarchaeolological Continuity in Peru (1977) (11)
Cost analysis of antibiotics in the management of perforated or gangrenous appendicitis. (1986) (9)
Herbs of Southern Ecuador: a field guide to the medicinal plants of Vilcabamba. (2001) (6)
Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century (2006) (6)
Sacred Sanpedro in ethnoarchaeological context (2019) (3)
A Peruvian Curandero's Séance: Power and Balance (1976) (2)
Mesas & Cosmologies in Mesoamerica (2003) (1)
Cloth and Curing : Continuity and Change In Oaxaca (1994) (1)
Cultural Preservation of Ethnomedicine in Peru (2016) (0)
UCLA Latin American Center Enrichment Program in Latin American Studies for Community College Instructors. Project Mexico--Final Report. (1977) (0)
Andean Mesas and Cosmologies (2021) (0)
Botanik, Chemie und ritueller Gebrauch des San Pedro-Kaktus in den mittleren Anden in Rausch und Realitat. Drogen im Kulturvergleich. Extase et réalité. Les drogues dans une perspective transculturelle (1981) (0)
Similarity of vendor portfolios in Trujillo and Chiclayo (2011) (0)
Integrating Traditional and Modern Medicine: Perspectives from Ethnobotany, Medical Anthropology, Microbiology, and Pharmacy (2020) (0)
A model for cost evaluation of new antibiotics. (1989) (0)
From Plant Collection to Lab and Market—Traditional Medicine in Northern Peru (2015) (0)

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