Ayahuasca shamanism in the Amazon and beyond / Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar
- Published:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Additional Creators:
- Labate, Beatriz Caiuby and Cavnar, Clancy
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Will the Real Shaman Please Stand Up? The Recent Adoption of Ayahuasca Among Indigenous Groups of the Peruvian Amazon / Glenn H. Shepard Jr. -- 2.Kuntanawa: Ayahuasca, Ethnicity, and Culture / Mariana Ciavatta Pantoja -- 3.Materializing Alliances: Ayahuasca Shamanism in and Beyond Western Amazonian Indigenous Communities / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen -- 4.Medicine Alliance: Contemporary Shamanic Networks in Brazil / Isabel Santana De Rose -- 5.Ritualized Misunderstanding Between Uncertainty, Agreement, and Rupture: Communication Patterns in Euro-American Ayahuasca Ritual Interactions / Silvia Mesturini Cappo -- 6.Shamans' Networks in Western Amazonia: The Iquitos-Nauta Road / Francoise Barbira Freedman -- 7.On the Uneasiness of Tourism: Considerations on Shamanic Tourism in Western Amazonia / Evgenia Fotiou -- 8.The Internationalization of Peruvian Vegetalismo / Beatriz Caiuby Labate -- 9.From the Natives Point of View: How Shipibo-Konibo Experience and Interpret Ayahuasca Drinking with "Gringos" / Bernd Brabec De Mori -- 10.Ayahuasca's Attractions and Distractions: Examining Sexual Seduction in Shaman-Participant Interactions / Daniela Peluso -- 11.Yage-Related Neo-Shamanism in Colombian Urban Contexts / Alhena Caicedo Fernandez.
- Summary:
- Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of the spread of indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon to Western societies, looking at how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these forest traditions.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780199379408 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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