Learning Animacy Through Embodying Others: Plant Diets in the Peruvian Amazon
University of Chicago August 1, 2024 Lorna Hadlock
A hallucinogenic brew called ayahuasca has increasingly played a role in drawing people from around the world to the Peruvian Amazon. They come seeking healing and spiritual encounters. As ayahuasca tourism has grown, it has exceeded its designation as mere tourism. Some of the foreigners (mostly Westerners) who come to the jungle for ayahuasca engage in long-term shamanic training with local...