Talk:Manuel Córdova-Rios

Tone and style of article

I have added the Template:Story tag to the top of the article, because it is essentially a synopsis of the author's sensational autobiographies. These stories are, as mentioned in the article, doubted. I considered adding the Template:In-universe tags or the Template:Fan POV tags as well. I am not sure how much verifiable direct coverage there really is about this person. Wizmut (talk) 21:42, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Analysis sourced in professional journals

Included in the article are discussions citing the following published sources:

• Marlene Dobkin de Ríos, [Review of Wizard of the Upper Amazon] in American Anthropologist 74/6: 1423–1424 (1972).
• F. Bruce Lamb, "Wizard of the Upper Amazon as ethnography" in Current Anthropology 22/5: 577–580 (1981)a.
• F. Bruce Lamb, "Comment on Bock's review of The Don Juan Papers" in American Anthropologist 83/3: 641 (1981)b.
• Richard Evans Schultes, [Review of Wizard of the Upper Amazon] in Economic Botany 26: 197–198 (April 1972).
• Amanda Mignonne Smith, "From the rubber boom to Ayawaskha tourism. Shamanic initiation narratives and the comodification of Amazonia" in A Contracorriente 14/3:1-22 (2017).
• Amanda M. Smith, Mapping the Amazon. Literary geography after the rubber boom (Liverpool University 2021).

Schultes was a renowned expert on the Amazon's flora. Dobkin de Rios is a recognized authority on the region's culture, as are Smith and Lamb.

There is also this popular article:

• "Wizard of the Upper Amazon" [Review] in Time, 97/10: 82 (March 8, 1971).

Elfelix (talk) 05:27, 7 March 2025 (UTC)