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Joshua Homan

1 paper in the library · 6 citations · publishing 2016

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Disentangling the ayahuasca boom: local impacts in Western Peruvian Amazonia

September 1, 2016 Joshua Homan 6 citations

Since at least the early colonial period, ayahuasca has been crucial to social life for both mestizo and indigenous peoples throughout the western Peruvian Amazon. This psychoactive beverage, containing the ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and usually other admixtures, especially chacruna (Psychotria viridis), is traditionally utilized by Amazonian peoples for curing numerous ailments,...

DOI: 10.4324/9781315551425-15 Ayahuasca Amazon rainforest Boom