Revista do Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro

O Rio e a Floresta: articulações Huni kuin — Rio de Janeiro-Ayahuasca

Revista do Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro June 6, 2019 Maicon Fecher, Elizabeth Pissolato

This paper approaches the relationship that has been built since 2000’s among ayahuasca Huni Kuin masters (Western Amazon) — singers (txanas) or shamans — and locals from Rio de Janeiro city that are interested in the set of knowledges mediated by that and other forest medicines. We briefly follow up the relationship between Huni Kuin indigenous people and ayahuasca religions in Acre 1990’s...