Ayahuasca shamanism in the Amazon and beyond /
This book discusses how Amerindian epistemology and ontology related to certain indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon spread to Western societies, and how indigenous, mestizo and cosmopolitan cultures have dialogued with and transformed these forest traditions. The collection also focuses on how...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Oxford ritual studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Authentic Ayahuasca / Oscar Calavia Saéz
- Notes on the expansion and reinvention of Ayahuasca shamanism / Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, and Françoise Barbira Freedman
- Will the real shaman please stand up? The recent adoption of Ayahuasca among indigenous groups of the Peruvian Amazon / Glenn H. Shepard Jr.
- Kuntanawa: Ayahuasca, ethnicity, and culture / Mariana Ciavatta Pantoja ; translated by Matthew Meyer
- Materializing alliances: Ayahuasca shamanism In and beyond western Amazonian indigenous communities / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
- Medicine alliance: contemporary shamanic networks in Brazil / Esther Jean Langdon and Isabel Santana de Rose
- Ritualized misunderstanding between uncertainty, agreement and rupture: communication patterns in Euro-American Ayahuasca ritual interactions / Anne-Marie Losonczy and Silvia Mesturini Cappo
- Shamans' networks in western Amazonia: the Iquitos-Nauta road / Françoise Barbira Freedman
- On the uneasiness of tourism: considerations on shamanic tourism in western Amazonia / Evgenia Fotiou
- The internationalization of Peruvian vegetalismo / Beatriz Caiuby Labate
- From the native's point of view: how Shipibo-Konibo experience and interpret Ayahuasca drinking with ''gringos'' / Bernd Brabec de Mori
- Ayahuasca's attractions and distractions: examining sexual seduction in shaman-participant interactions / Daniela Peluso
- Yage-related neo-shamanism in Colombian urban contexts / Alhena Caicedo Fernández.