Jonathan Thomas Lowell

The routes of a plant: ayahuasca and the global networks of Santo Daime

Social & Cultural Geography March 31, 2016 Jonathan Thomas Lowell, Paul C. Adams 16 citations

This paper examines the Santo Daime religion, the Amazonian town of Céu do Mapiá which is one of its primary spiritual centres, and Ayahuasca, a key sacrament of the Santo Daime religion. The small village in the Amazon demonstrates the active outreach by a place which functions as a nexus of international and intercontinental flows of substances, bodies and meanings. The power of place is...