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Marlene Dobkin de Rios

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Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Dobkin de Rios in 2002
Born(1939-04-12)April 12, 1939
DiedNovember 10, 2012(2012-11-10) (aged 73)
Occupation(s)Cultural anthropologist, medical anthropologist, psychotherapist
Children2
Academic background
Alma materQueens College, City University of New York
New York University
University of California, Riverside
Academic work
InstitutionsCalifornia 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

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Dobkin de Rios was born in 1939 in The Bronx into a Ukrainian Jewish family. She was the daughter of Bernard Dobkin, a salesman from Kyiv, and Anne (née Schwartz), a bookkeeper whose parents emigrated from Galicia.[2][3] Her family were Russian Jews.[4]

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.[4]

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.[5]

Career

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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.[6] Her research included the use of entheogenic plants by the indigenous peoples of Peru.[7]

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.[7]

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 Ethnopharmacology Society (1979-1981) and the Southwestern Anthropological Association [Wikidata] (1979-1980).[3]

Personal life

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On November 7, 1969, Dobkin married artist Yando Rios, son of Peruvian healer Don Hilde.[4][8] They had two children.[3] Dobkin de Rios died on November 10, 2012, in Placentia, California of cancer.[7]

Selected works

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  • Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (1972). Visionary Vine: Psychedelic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon. Chandler Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8102-0456-0.[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (1992). Amazon Healer: The Life and Times of an Urban Shaman. Prism. ISBN 978-1-85327-076-5.[11]
  • 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.[12]
  • 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.[13]
  • 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

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  1. ^ New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910–1965
  2. ^ New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794–1943
  3. ^ a b c "Marlene Dobkin De Rios". Contemporary Authors. October 24, 2014 – via Gale In Context: Biography.
  4. ^ a b c Francuski, Xavier (2019-06-27). "Marlene Dobkin de Rios: The Mother of Ayahuasca Research (1939-2012)". Kahpi. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
  5. ^ Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (1972). The Use of Hallucinogenic Substances in Peruvian Amazonian Folk Healing (Ph.D. thesis). University of California, Riverside. OCLC 982683.
  6. ^ "Dobkin de Rios, Marlene". Purdue University. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
  7. ^ a b c "Erowid Marlene Dobkin de Rios Vault". erowid.org. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
  8. ^ "Marlene Dobkin De Rios". Directory of American Scholars. 2002 – via Gale.
  9. ^ Reviews of Visionary Vine:
  10. ^ Reviews of Hallucinogens, Cross-Cultural Perspectives:
  11. ^ Luhrmann, Tanya (1993). "Review". Man. 28 (3): 621. doi:10.2307/2804268. ISSN 0025-1496. JSTOR 2804268.
  12. ^ Reviews of A Hallucinogentic Tea, Laced with Controversy:
  13. ^ Reviews of The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios:
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