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Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Stephan Beyer Peru The bowl and stem areIn the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages, their houses perched on stilts on the shores of the rivers that are their primary means of travel. Here in the jungle, they have retained features of the Hispanic tradition, including a folk Catholicism and