The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Reinventions and Controversies

ISBN-13: 9781138385696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 270 str.

Beatriz Caiuby Labate; Clancy Cavnar; Alex K. Gearin

Opis

This book presents classic and contemporary issues in social science and the humanities, providing rich material on the bourgeoning expansion of ayahuasca use around the globe.

Spis treści

Foreword. Ayahuasca in the 21st century: having it both ways, Glenn H. Shepard Jr; Introduction: the shifting journey of ayahuasca in diaspora, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar & Alex K. Gearin; If tradition did not exist, it would have to be invented: retraditionalization and the world ayahuasca diaspora, Andrew Dawson; Between ecstasy and reason: a symbolic interpretation of UDV trance, Rosa Virgínia Melo; The religion of the forest: reflections on the international expansion of a Brazilian ayahuasca religion, Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Glauber Loures de Assis; Culling the spirits: an exploration of Santo Daime’s adaptation in Canada, Eli Oda Sheiner; A religious battle: musical dimensions of the Santo Daime diaspora, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar & Glauber Loures de Assis; Good mother nature: ayahuasca neoshamanism as cultural critique in Australia, Alex K. Gearin; Aussiewaska: a cultural history of changa and ayahuasca analogues in Australia, Graham St John; Disentangling the ayahuasca boom: local impacts in western Peruvian Amazonia, Joshua Homan; The economics of ayahuasca: money, markets, and the value of the vine, Kenneth W. Tupper; Global ayahuasca: an entrepreneurial ecosystem, Daniela M. Peluso; A climate for change: ICEERS and the challenges of the globalization of ayahuasca, Benjamin K. De Loenen, Òscar Parés Franquero, Constanza Sánchez Avilés; Ayahuasca in the English courts: legal entanglements with the jungle vine, Charlotte Walsh