Notions of visualism and individualism have long been employed to elucidate the contours of Western subjectivity. It is therefore not surprising to find the indigenous Amazonian shamanic brew ayahuasca being adopted by Australian neoshamanic practitioners as a medicine that provides personalized visions delivering unambiguous moral import. While this adoption represents a radically new style of...
The use of ayahuasca, even in its original indigenous ground, cannot be described as a culturally variable but culturally bounded body of traditional knowledge, ritual or shamanic technic.This paper describes it rather in the way in which modern science and technology are described, as a network of human and non human actors (spirits, bio-chemical substances, specialists, clients, theories on...