Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Marlene Dobkin de Rios FRAI | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | April 12, 1939
Died | November 10, 2012 Placentia, California, U.S. | (aged 73)
Occupation | Cultural anthropologist, medical anthropologist, psychotherapist |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Queens College, City University of New York New York University University of California, Riverside |
Academic work | |
Institutions | California State University, Fullerton |
Marlene Dobkin de Rios FRAI (April 12, 1939 – November 10, 2012) was an American cultural anthropologist, medical anthropologist, and psychotherapist. She conducted fieldwork in the Amazon for almost 30 years. Her research included the use of entheogenic plants by the indigenous peoples of Peru.
Early life and education[]
Dobkin de Rios completed a bachelor's degree in clinical psychology at Queens College, City University of New York in 1959. In 1963, Dobkin de Rios earned a M.A. in anthropology from New York University. She researched gender issues including the social aspects of purdah in Turkey and the French colonial empire's policies impacting women in French West Africa.[1]
She conducted doctoral research on the Preclassic Maya's use of psychoactive plants. In 1972, she earned a Ph.D. at University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation was titled The Use of Hallucinogenic Substances in Peruvian Amazonian Folk Healing.[2]
Career[]
In 1972, Dobkin de Rios became a tenured professor cultural anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. She taught at Fullerton from 1969 until her retirement in 2000. Dobkin de Rios led fieldwork in the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon for almost thirty years.[3] Her research included the use of entheogenic plants by the indigenous peoples of Peru.[4]
From 1999 to 2000, Dobkin de Rios directed the qualitative dimension of research of ayahuasca use among adolescents within the União do Vegetal in Brazil.[4]
Dobkin de Rios was a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. She served as president of the (1979-1981) and the (1979-1980).[5]
Personal life[]
Dobkin de Rios was born to Anne (née Schwartz), a bookkeeper, and Bernard Dobkin, a salesman, on April 12, 1939, in New York City.[5] Her family were Russian Jews.[1]
On November 7, 1969, Dobkin de Rios married artist Yando Rios, son of Peruvian healer Don Hilde.[1][6] They had two children.[5] Dobkin de Rios died on November 10, 2012, in Placentia, California of cancer.[4]
Selected works[]
- Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (1972). Visionary Vine: Psychedelic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon. Chandler Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8102-0456-0.[7]
- Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (1976). The Wilderness of Mind: Sacred Plants in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-8039-0752-2.
- Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (1984). Hallucinogens, Cross-Cultural Perspectives. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-0737-8.[8]
- Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (1992). Amazon Healer: The Life and Times of an Urban Shaman. Prism. ISBN 978-1-85327-076-5.[9]
- Dobkin de Rios, Marlene; Janiger, Oscar (2003). LSD, Spirituality, and the Creative Process. Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. ISBN 978-0-89281-973-7.
- Dobkin de Rios, Marlene; Rumrrill, Róger (2008). A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced with Controversy: Ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-34542-5.[10]
- Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (2009). The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios: 45 Years with Shamans, Ayahuasqueros, and Ethnobotanists. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-59477-891-9.[11]
- Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (2011). Fate, Fortune, and Mysticism in the Peruvian Amazon: The Septrionic Order and the Naipes Cards. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-59477-947-3.
References[]
- ^ a b c Francuski, Xavier (2019-06-27). "Marlene Dobkin de Rios: The Mother of Ayahuasca Research (1939-2012)". Kahpi. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
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- ^ "Dobkin de Rios, Marlene". Perdue University. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c "Erowid Marlene Dobkin de Rios Vault". erowid.org. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
- ^ a b c "Marlene Dobkin De Rios". Contemporary Authors. October 24, 2014 – via Gale In Context: Biography.
- ^ "Marlene Dobkin De Rios". Directory of American Scholars. 2002 – via Gale.
- ^ Reviews of Visionary Vine:
- Mithun, Jacqueline S. (1976). "Review". American Anthropologist. 78 (2): 393–394. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 675296.
- Cowan, Jonathan (1973). "Review". Medical Anthropology Newsletter. 4 (4): 13–14. ISSN 0543-2499. JSTOR 648210.
- Rubel, Arthur J. (June 1976). "Review". American Anthropologist. 78 (2): 394–395. doi:10.1525/aa.1976.78.2.02a00670. ISSN 0002-7294.
- ^ Reviews of Hallucinogens, Cross-Cultural Perspectives:
- Furst, Peter T. (1985). "Review". American Ethnologist. 12 (3): 594–596. ISSN 0094-0496. JSTOR 644579.
- Joralemon, Donald (1985). "Review". American Anthropologist. 87 (4): 959–960. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 678192.
- Blätter, Andrea (1987). "Review". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 112 (2): 310–312. ISSN 0044-2666. JSTOR 25842036.
- Collins, Darron (1998). "Review". Economic Botany. 52 (1): 115–116. ISSN 0013-0001. JSTOR 4256039.
- ^ Luhrmann, Tanya (1993). "Review". Man. 28 (3): 621–621. doi:10.2307/2804268. ISSN 0025-1496. JSTOR 2804268.
- ^ Reviews of A Hallucinogentic Tea, Laced with Controversy:
- Luke, David (June 2011). "Review". Time and Mind. 4 (1): 115–118. doi:10.2752/175169711X12900033260600. ISSN 1751-696X.
- Heath, D. B. (June 2009). "Review". Choice Reviews. 46 (10): 1982. eISSN 1943-5975. ISSN 0009-4978.
- ^ Reviews of The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios:
- Smith, David E. (April 2011). "Review". Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 43 (2): 172–173. doi:10.1080/02791072.2011.587716. ISSN 0279-1072.
- Heinrich, Michael (March 2010). "Review". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 128 (1): 258. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2010.01.010.
External links[]
- Marlene Dobkin de Rios's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- 1939 births
- 2012 deaths
- American women anthropologists
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- American psychotherapists
- Queens College, City University of New York alumni
- New York University alumni
- California State University, Fullerton faculty
- University of California, Riverside alumni
- Deaths from cancer in California
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Jewish anthropologists
- 20th-century American Jews
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
- Academics from New York (state)
- Writers from New York City
- 21st-century American Jews