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The radical otherness that heals
The Radical Otherness That Heals proposes an interesting theoretical advance in various schools of local and regional, and national and transnational analysis. It is based on a multilocal ethnography and a detailed sociological and political reading of the interactions between institutions and social and cultural representations of otherness. The original theoretical proposal consists of reading the reconfiguration of shamanisms stemming from processes of ethnicization and patrimonialization, and skillfully reconstructing the national ideological space and the most recent effects of multiculturalism through representations of otherness Anne-Marie Losonczy, Director of Studies at the Ecole Pr...
Religious Freedom and the Global Regulation of Ayahuasca
This book offers a comprehensive view of the legal, political, and ethical challenges related to the global regulation of ayahuasca, bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew containing N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is a Schedule I substance under the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the legality of its ritual use has been interpreted differently throughout the world. The chapters in this volume reflect on the complex implications of the international expansion of ayahuasca, from health, spirituality, and human rights impacts on individuals, to legal and policy impacts on national governments. W...
Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond
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. The authors focus on the use of ayahuasca, a psychoactive drink essential in many indigenous shamanic rituals.
Infinite Perception
'If you want to learn more about how psychedelics can foster such emergence and positively contribute to individual, societal, and cultural transformations, please read this important and timely book.' Mario Beauregard, neuroscientist, author of Brain Wars and Expanding Reality, co-author of the Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science Infinite Perception: The Power of Psychedelics for Global Transformation is an anthology of voices from the front line of the Psychedelic Renaissance, co-edited by journalist Ocean Malandra and neuroscientist and Harvard researcher Natalie Dyer, PhD. After being culturally dormant for decades, a new mainstream global psychedelic revolution is upon us. This pio...
A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia
Philosophically addressing three fundamental aspects of the Kamëntšá, an indigenous culture located in the southwest of Colombia, this book is an investigation of how a native culture creates meaning. Time, beauty and spirit are key philosophical experiences within the Kamëntšá culture which should be interpreted both as constituting and as constituted symbols because of their historicity and actuality and their potential power of transformation. The book addresses these living symbols that take hold of the past but whose significance goes beyond their antiquity through the traditions of storytelling and dance, ritual, healing and ceremony as well as the fraught political histories of ...
The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora
During its expansion from the Amazon jungle to Western societies, ayahuasca use has encountered different legal and cultural responses. Following on from the earlier edited collection, The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora continues to explore 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. Each contributor explores the symbolic effects of a "bureaucratization of enchantment" in religious practice, and the "sanitizing" of indigenous rituals for tourist markets. Chapters include ethnograp...
Small Cinemas of the Andes
This book examines the emergence of small cinemas of the Andes, covering digital peripheries in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. The volume critically assesses heterogeneous audiovisual practices and subaltern agents, elucidating existing tensions, contradictions and resistances with respect to established cinematic norms. The reason these small cinematic sectors are of interest is twofold: first, the film markets of the aforementioned countries are often eclipsed by the filmmaking giants of Mexico, Brazil and Argentina; second, within the Andean countries these small cinemas are overshadowed by film board-backed cinemas whose products are largely designed for international film festivals.
Del junco al empaque
La medicina tradicional indígena, como parte de la realidad social, se ha adherido a las dinámicas culturales, económicas y legales de las sociedades modernas. Por tal motivo, a partir de esa relación y contexto, el libro propone la categoría medicina indígena empaquetada, para distinguir las estrategias de inserción de las medicinas indígenas del Putumayo en ciudades intermedias. A través de un trabajo cualitativo en ciudades medianas y pequeñas del altiplano cundiboyacense (Colombia), el autor define las medicinas indígenas empaquetadas desde los medicamentos indígenas reformados en su exterioridad para ser comercializados en ferias artesanales itinerantes. Tal estrategia tiene por objetivo convertir las medicinas indígenas en una opción igual de valida a los medicamentos de la biomedicina.
Le Corps de l'identité
Le corps n’est pas seulement marqueur d’une identité notamment sexuée, mais possède un réel pouvoir transformateur, aussi utilisons-nous l’expression de « transformation corporelle ». Dans la mesure où le corps agit sur l’identité, nous proposons le concept de « corps-identité », notion qui signale le rôle fondamental que joue l’ordre du corporel. Si les rituels modifient le statut de la personne, il en est de même des chirurgies, attestant que le corps/identité est fondamentalement en devenir et non donné une fois pour toute. L’acte chirurgical, non dénué de souffrance, porte en soi l’avènement d’un nouveau corps mais aussi d’une existence inédite, le geste même de couper qu’implique toute chirurgie renvoie fantasmatiquement à la perspective de rompre avec le passé afin de changer de statut et d’existence, la transformation corporelle accomplie étant à la fois physique et identitaire.
KOMMT UND SEHT - DIE GASTFREUNDSCHAFT ALS GRUNDVORAUSSETZUNG DES INTERRELIGIÖSEN DIALOGS
Insgesamt zeigte das Fachkolloquium, dass Gastfreundschaft in allen Religionen und Kulturen eine wichtige Rolle im gesellschaftlichen Zusammenleben spielt. Die durchaus auch kontroversen Diskussionen kreisten um eine religiös begründete (absolute) Gastfreundschaft in Spannung zu (verantwortungsethischen) Regulierungen und Begrenzungen, z. B. von Migrationsbewegungen. Die Verwurzelung in Gott zeigte sich als tiefster Grund der Überwindung von abgrenzenden Identitätsbildungen. Anders als bei einem bunten Nebeneinander (diversity) führt dies aber zum Versuch eines radikalen dialogischen Fremdverstehens, das auch den Wahrheitsanspruch des Anderen anerkennt und dem die je aus den Traditionen der beteiligten Religionen heraus begründete gastfreundliche Auf- und Annahme vorausgeht.
