The Jaguar

Scholarship

• Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs among the Indians of Colombia, 1975Record of the book (Temple University Press, 1975) in which the shaman's transformation into a jaguar during narcotic trance among Tukanoan peoples is described.
• Silvia Maria Schmuziger de Carvalho, Review of Reichel-Dolmatoff, Desana and The Shaman and the Jaguar, Perspectivas (São Paulo) 3, 1980, pp. 169–174The review confirms that The Shaman and the Jaguar gives a detailed account of the hallucinatory transformation into a jaguar during trance, in the shamanism of the upper Rio Negro.

  transformação alucinatória em jaguar

• Carson N. Murdy, 'Congenital Deformities and the Olmec Were-Jaguar Motif', American Antiquity 46:4, 1981, pp. 861–871, abstractMurdy's 1981 argument that most attributes of the Olmec were-jaguar are best explained by analogy with neural tube defects, not by the jaguar alone.

  the congenital deformities manifested in and associated with multifactorial neural tube defects

Further reading

• Peter T. Furst, 'Jaguar Baby or Toad Mother: A New Look at an Old Problem in Olmec Iconography', in E. P. Benson (ed.), The Olmec and Their Neighbors (Dumbarton Oaks), 1981Bibliographic record of Furst's 1981 challenge to the jaguar reading of the Olmec motif (citation record only; content not read).