Then (2001), Plants of the Gods
The Schultes Students: Did the Next Generation Continue His Work?
Schultes spent decades training ethnobotanists at Harvard who would extend his documentation into the 21st century. He died in 2001, fourteen years before the psychedelic research renaissance he had hoped to see and not long enough after legalization to see the pharmaceutical development he had anticipated.
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Schultes's students have collectively: published thousands of ethnobotanical papers; founded or directed the Ethnobotany Program at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (William Milliken); produced major popularizations of ethnobotany (Wade Davis's The Serpent and the Rainbow and One River; Mark Plotkin's Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice and The Amazon); co-founded the Heffter Research Institute (Dennis McKenna); established conservation programs for threatened medicinal plant knowledge in multiple countries; testified before Congress on indigenous rights. The School of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology of Latin America (founded 1992) and multiple university ethnobotany programs trace directly to Schultes's framework. His work has been extended by a generation of researchers.
Sources
- Davis, One River (1996)
- Plotkin, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice (1993)
- McKenna, Heffter Research Institute (1993)