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Ayahuasca Religions
The last two decades have seen a broad expansion of the ayahuasca religions, and it has also witnessed, especially since the millennium, an explosion of studies into the spiritual uses of ayahuasca. Ayahuasca Religions grew out of the need for an ordering of the profusion of titles related to this subject that are now appearing. This publication offers a map of the global production of literature on this theme. Three researchers located in different cities (Beatriz Caiuby Labate in São Paulo, Rafael Guimarães dos Santos in Barcelona, and Isabel Santana de Rose in Florianapolis, Brazil) worked in a virtual research group for a year to compile a list of bibliographical references on Santo Da...
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.
Opening the Portals of Heaven
Du site de l'éd.: This book highlights the theme of music in the ayahuasca religions of Santo Daime (both the Cefluris and Alto Santo groups) and the União do Vegetal (UDV). Although most studies of the ayahuasca religions recognize the centrality of music in their rituals, the study of the music itself has generally been secondary to other themes, rather than the central focus that it is here. A rich cultural manifestation, ayahuasca music reveals multiple connections with Brazilian religiosity and with the musical expression of the Northeast and Amazonia, and has been one of the principal elements highlighted by recent efforts to designate ayahuasca as immaterial cultural heritage of the...
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...
Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive drink used for healing and divination among religious groups in the Brazilian Amazon. 'Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil' is the first scholarly volume in English to examine the religious rituals and practices surrounding ayahuasca. The use of ayahuasca among religious groups is analysed, alongside Brazilian public policies regarding ayahuasca and the handling of substance dependence. 'Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil' will be of interest to scholars of anthropology and religion and all those interested in the role of stimulants in religious practice.
The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology
This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation, technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in different parts of the world. The Handbook is organised around some of the most important characteristics of anthropological studies of technology today: the diverse knowledge practices that technologies involve and on which they depend; the communities, collectives, and categories that emerge around technolog...
O uso de plantas psicoativas nas Américas
Este livro aborda etnografias originais sobre vários tipos de uso de plantas psicoativas, incluindo ayahuasca, cogumelos mágicos, jurema, coca, tabaco, toé, cannabis, rapé, sananga, kambô, yopo, timbó e bebidas como o caxiri. Os capítulos apresentam uma diversidade de noções e práticas relativas ao uso de tais plantas, destacando os contextos de usos indígenas e não indígenas, bem como intermediações e fluxos complexos entre eles. As contribuições discutem vários temas, como xamanismo, agência, pensamento indígena, gênero e desempenho. Os diferentes tipos de consumos destas substâncias, feitos por populações locais e transnacionais, permitem repensar categorias antropológicas clássicas, tais como: ritual, sagrado e profano e cura. Apontando para a complexidade dos contextos em que os usos dessas plantas psicoativas ocorrem, este livro também lança luz sobre o debate da necessidade da reforma da política de drogas.
O parto na luz do Daime
A gestação, o parto e o pós-parto vivenciados por mulheres adeptas da religião Daime é a principal investigação de O Parto na Luz do Daime: corpo e reprodução entre mulheres na vila Irineu Serra, título da coleção Antropologia e Saúde. A obra entrelaça a cultura do daime no Acre e a assistência ao parto de mulheres “oasqueiras”, que fazem uso da Ayahuasca – bebida produzida a partir da combinação de ervas psicoativas da Amazônia, que também pode ser chamada de daime – no ritual da crença adotada. Além disso, a autora aborda o fenômeno da feminização do uso da bebida, a maior participação das mulheres nos rituais e, também, se propõe a debater sobre as mulheres da vila Irineu Serra, local onde aconteceram os primeiros atendimentos de saúde vinculados ao Santo Daime.
Reisende im Strom der Zeit
Diese ethnographische Fallstudie beschäftigt sich mit dem kulturellen Kontext des Gebrauches der als lebendiges Wesen angesehenen Pflanze Yajé (Ayahuasca) bei den indigenen Cofán (Putumayo, Süd-Kolumbien) sowie der damit verbundenen lokalen Ethik. Daneben beleuchtet sie u.a. alte und neuere schamanische Netzwerke der Cofán, den Transfer ihrer Yajé-Rituale in urbane Zentren und das Ausland, die Entstehung eines neuen transnationalen Cofán-Novizentums und die Rückwirkung all dessen auf die lokale Ebene. Die Arbeit stellt den Schamanismus der Cofán als ein offenes System in ständigem Wandel dar und versteht sich als Beitrag zur rezenten Diskussion um Ayahuasca und Globalisierung.
Dynamiques religieuses des autochtones des Amériques. Religious Dynamics of Indigenous People of the Americas
Les croyances et les pratiques religieuses des autochtones des Amériques ont-elles été supplantées par le christianisme ? Jusqu’à récemment, les chercheurs avaient tendance à vouloir démontrer les effets dévastateurs de l’évangélisation sur les systèmes de croyances premiers ou, au contraire, à tenter de mettre au jour, sous la façade chrétienne, les restes d’un substrat religieux originel. En réalité, les dynamiques religieuses chez les autochtones américains apparaissent bien plus complexes et subtiles. De nos jours, des réseaux religieux sont en voie d’émergence ou de consolidation. Ils s’inscrivent dans un contexte de mondialisation, mettant en contact les a...
