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Jeremy Narby

Jeremy Narby is an anthropologist who spent several years living with the Ashaninca in the Peruvian Amazon. He has written several books about the systems of knowledge of Amazonian peoples, including The cosmic serpent, DNA and the origins of knowledge and Intelligence in nature.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Confessions of a White Vampire

Jeremy Narby

‘Many of the people I was living with considered me a white vampire, who killed to extract human fat.’ Jeremy Narby on the Amazonian myth of the white vampire.

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