by Carlos Castaneda · European Schoolbooks · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264007254
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«L'Herbe du diable et la petite fumée» is Carlos Castaneda's anthropological account, in paperback (259 pages, in French).
Narrated in the first person, the book recounts how Carlos Castaneda, an anthropology student, meets don Juan, a Yaqui Indian, in Arizona in 1961. Under don Juan's tutelage, Castaneda delves into shamanism: from peyote to Datura inoxia, the devil's weed, until he transforms into a dog of light that wanders through Mexico.
It is the first volume of the series «The Teachings of Don Juan». The work was originally published in 1968; this French edition is from 1977. The French translation is by Michel Doury.
It appeals to those seeking a classic of anthropological literature on shamanism, spirituality, and sacred plants.
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-American writer, trained as an anthropologist. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe alleged training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named Don Juan Matus. While Castaneda's work was accepted as factual by many when the books were first published, the character of Don Juan and the training he described is now generally considered to be fabricated and to have little relation to the actual cultural practices of the Yaqui. Castaneda's early writings featuring Don Juan were bestsellers with the general public, and are considered to be a significant influence on neoshamanism and the New Age movement more broadly.
