ethnomycology
A new interpretation of the “mushroom madness” of New Guinea
Bimin-Kuskusmin, China, ethnomycology, hallucinogenic mushrooms, Kuma, mushroom madness, New Guinea, YunnanBy: GIORGIO SAMORINI – Among the ethnographic data concerning psychoactive mushrooms, the most enigmatic case is that of “mushroom madness”, a bizarre behaviour that periodically affected a part of the Kuma population and other ethnic groups of eastern New Guinea, and which according to the natives was due to the consumption of certain species of…