The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Appropriation, Integration and Legislation

ISBN-13: 9780415786188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 226 str.

Beatriz Caiuby Labate; Clancy Cavnar

Opis

This book explores how certain alternative global religious groups, shamanic tourism industries and recreational drug milieus grounded in the consumption of the traditionally Amazonian psychoactive drink ayahuasca embody various challenges associated with modern societies.

Spis treści

Foreword: Ayahuasca and its Controversies, Óscar Calavia Sáez 1. A Critical Review of the Literature on the Diaspora of Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions, Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Glauber Loures de Assis 2. Interpellations and Challenges in the Neoshamanic and Ayahuasca Fields in Uruguay, Juan Scuro 3. "Altered by the Hand of Man": Contextualizing Ayahuasca Law in Britain and Europe, Jonathan Hobbs 4. Santo Daime in a "Post-Catholic" Ireland: Reflecting and Moving on, Gillian Watt 5. From Village to Forest: Artistic-Spiritual Partnerships between Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin, Ilana Seltzer Goldstein & Beatriz Caiuby Labate 6. The Global Expansion of Ayahuasca through the Internet, Matthew Conrad 7. Ayahuasca’s Influence on Gay Identity, Clancy Cavnar 8. "Men," "Shaman," and "Ayahuasca" as Overlapping Clichés in the Peruvian Vegetalismo, Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier & Carl Kevin Carew 9. What Ayahuasca Wants: Notes for the Study and Preservation of an Entangled Ayahuasca, Silvia Mesturini Cappo 10. "La Dieta": The Western Reinvention of Indigenous Amazonian Food Shamanism, Alex K. Gearin & Beatriz Caiuby Labate 11. Power and Legitimacy in the Reconfiguration of the Yagecero Field in Colombia, Alhena Caicedo Fernández