Teorías, Actores y Redes de la Ayahuasca
Ilha Revista de Antropologia December 3, 2014 DOI: 10.5007/2175-8034.2014v16n1p7 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Ayahuasca |
| Keywords | Amazon rainforest |
| Citations | 4 |
| Key points | Proposes that ayahuasca is best understood as a network of human and nonhuman actors that transforms the practice as it spreads, rather than as a bounded traditional knowledge system. |
Abstract
The use of ayahuasca, even in its original indigenous ground, cannot be described as a culturally variable but culturally bounded body of traditional knowledge, ritual or shamanic technic.This paper describes it rather in the way in which modern science and technology are described, as a network of human and non human actors (spirits, bio-chemical substances, specialists, clients, theories on its principles and goals) that transform it as long as they perform and disseminate it.The paper is a tentative survey on the diversity of composition, uses and agents of ayahuasca throughout the Amazon.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on ayahuasca, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| The globalization of ayahuasca: Harm reduction or benefit maximization? | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond | 2014 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience | 2003 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations. | 2022 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Ayahuasca healing beyond the Amazon: the globalization of a traditional indigenous entheogenic practice | 2008 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
Citations in the library
Cited by 3
- Os outros da festa: um sobrevoo por festivais yawanawa e huni kuin Horizontes Antropológicos August 1, 2018
- Imaginação, linguagem, espíritos e agência: ayahuasca e o tratamento da dependência química Revista de Antropologia September 27, 2017
- "Psicologización de la espiritualidad" Ciencias Sociales y Religión July 1, 2018