Resumen El texto de Henrique Carneiro analiza la evolución conceptual que le ha dado al término “droga” una multiplicidad de significados, los cuales van desde veneno a remedio, de sustancias originales del interior del país a medicamentos fitoterapéuticos, y examina los conflictos entre los saberes indígenas y su apropiación por la sociedad colonial. Abstract Henrique Carneiro's text analyzes...
Abstract The Indigenous cultures of South America developed a diverse array of traditional uses for psychoactive plants. This chapter surveys the historical and anthropological literatures on these practices. Pre-Columbian usage, later labeled as idolatry, was transformed by European colonization of the Americas. However, chroniclers such as Sahagun, Hernández, de Acosta, and Monardes, as well...
Resenha do livro "O uso ritual da Ayahuasca", organizado por Beatriz Caiuby Labate e Wladimyr Sena Araújo, Campinas: Mercado de Letras / São Paulo: FAPESP, 2002.