When Sacred Plants Turn into Resources. Review of “Cull of Personality: Ayahuasca, Shamanism and the Death of the Healer” by Kevin Tucker Black, Black and Green Press: Denver 2019, 208 pages
Ethnologia Polona December 18, 2020 Zuzanna Sadowska
Cull of Personality: Ayahuasca, Shamanism and the Death of the Healer tells a story of colonial encounters with different worlds, with a primary focus on the processes associated with turning human and non-human others into resources. Along with Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of the New World and the signing of the Treaty at Tordesillas, which divided its territory between European empires,...