Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond
by Labate, Beatriz Caiuby; Cavnar, ClancyFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2014-06-18
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, PhD, is Visiting Professor, Center for Research and Post Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS).
Clancy Cavnar, PsyD, is Research Associate of the Nucleus for Interdisciplinary Studies of Psychoactives (NEIP).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
List of Illustrations
Foreword: Authentic Ayahuasca by Oscar Calavia Sa?z
Introduction: Notes on the Expansion and Reinvention of Ayahuasca Shamanism - Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, and Fran?oise Barbira Freedman
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 - Esther Jean Langdon and Isabel Santana de Rose
5. Ritualized Misunderstanding between Uncertainty, Agreement and Rupture: Communication Patterns in Euro-American Ayahuasca Ritual Interactions - Anne-Marie Losonczy and Silvia Mesturini Cappo
6. Shamans' Networks in Western Amazonia: The Iquitos-Nauta Road - Fran?oise 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 Native's 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 Fern?ndez
Index
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