The paper presents an interview with Herlinda Agustin, a renowned Shipibo-Konibo onaya (“doctor”) and kene artist who died in 2010. It describes the learning path that took her from massages and diets to healing with ayahuasca, after the birth of her last child. Herlinda saw her career as intrinsically related to her desire to look after her children and to generate an income to sustain their...
The paper examines how the association between plants and graphic arts led to the simultaneous patrimonialization of the Shipibo-Conibo kene designs and of the traditional use of ayahuasca by the Peruvian government in 2008. It describes the context of production and commercialization by women of kene objets and its link to immaterial designs seen in ayahuasca sessions and used in new shamanic...
Amazonian shamanic painting is a hybrid art born from the coming together of Western figurative techniques, indigenous body painting and visionary shamanic experiences. It is a testimonial art by which painters express their visionary experiences to a foreign public aiming to understand the Amazonian universe. In his watercolors and drawings, the Asháninka healer Noé Silva Morales bears witness...