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September 1, 2016 Daniela M. Peluso 2 citations
This chapter examines issues surrounding the viability and desirability of recent entrepreneurs and entrepreneurships aiming to create effective measures of 'transparency' 'efficacy' and 'safety' with regards to the increasing participation in the ayahuasca sessions that take place in local and global settings. It raises critical questions about the methods through which such initiatives seek...
September 1, 2016 Clancy Cavnar Beatriz Caiuby Labate 2 citations
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew that has been historically used by indigenous and mestizo Amazonians for shamanic purposes. It is typically constituted by boiling the vine Banisteriopsis caapi with the shrub Psychotria viridis – two plants that contain sets of chemicals that are a "match made in heaven."4 Many books and articles on the topic of ayahuasca begin with a similar opening statement,...
September 1, 2016 Joshua Homan 6 citations
Since at least the early colonial period, ayahuasca has been crucial to social life for both mestizo and indigenous peoples throughout the western Peruvian Amazon. This psychoactive beverage, containing the ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and usually other admixtures, especially chacruna (Psychotria viridis), is traditionally utilized by Amazonian peoples for curing numerous ailments,...
September 1, 2016 Kenneth W. Tupper 5 citations
Introduction The field of ayahuasca studies has emerged as a thoroughly interdisciplinary academic pursuit in the early twenty-first century, with research occurring in areas such as ethnobotany, neuropsychology, psychiatry, religious studies, anthropology, and drug policy studies. In each of these domains, the object of research – ayahuasca – is represented through a variety of social...
September 1, 2016 Andrew Dawson 9 citations
Introduction The title of this chapter arises from a playful modification and subsequent fusion of Voltaire's famous aphorism ("If God did not exist, he would have to be invented") with Eric Hobsbawm's seminal insights into the "invention" of tradition within modern society. Provoked by an atheistic pamphlet then in circulation, the aphoristic response coined by Voltaire in 1768 embodies a...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2016 Raven Renèe Ray, Kerry S. Lassiter 9 citations
Abstract Ayahuasca, an ancient Amazonian psychedelic tea traditionally used ceremonially among indigenous peoples, has recently become known as a possible treatment for a wide range of disorders. The awareness of this sacred medicine has grown exponentially over the past decade, attracting westerners from a wide variety of backgrounds, hoping to find treatment for a myriad of emotional and...
September 1, 2016 Graham St John 47 citations
While the complexities of the global ayahuasca proliferation have drawn the attention of scholars in recent years, the cultural career of DMT (N,Ndimethyltryptamine) remains conspicuously under-researched. Most known for its role in the ayahuasca brew – where it is orally potentiated by beta-carboline harmala alkaloids contained in the liana Banisteriopsis caapi – the tryptamine compound DMT...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2016 Evgenia Fotiou 84 citations
Abstract Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic plant mixture used in a ceremonial context throughout western Amazonia, and its use has expanded globally in recent decades. As part of this expansion, ayahuasca has become popular among westerners who travel to the Peruvian Amazon in increasing numbers to experience its reportedly healing and transformative effects. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in...
August 19, 2016 Jaqueline Tavares de Assis
complexa jornada.Obrigada, sobretudo por me dar coragem e acreditar que eu também poderia trilhar esses caminhos da academia.Sua confiança sempre foi fundamental.
Psychopharmacology July 19, 2016 Kim P. C. Kuypers, Jordi Riba, Mario de la Fuente Revenga et al. 204 citations
INTRODUCTION: Ayahuasca is a South American psychotropic plant tea traditionally used in Amazonian shamanism. The tea contains the psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), plus β-carboline alkaloids with monoamine oxidase-inhibiting properties. Increasing evidence from anecdotal reports and open-label studies indicates that ayahuasca may have therapeutic effects in...
Drug Testing and Analysis July 5, 2016 Marcos Tascón, Fernando Benavente, Nora M. Vizioli et al. 18 citations
The β‐carboline alkaloids of the harmala (HAlks) group are compounds widely spread in many natural sources, but found at relatively high levels in some specific plants like Peganum harmala ( Syrian rue ) or Banisteriopsis caapi . HAlks are a reversible Mono Amino Oxidase type A Inhibitor (MAOI) and, as a consequence, these plants or their extracts can be used to produce psychotropic effects...
Art&Sensorium June 27, 2016 Marcelo Simão Mercante
Pretendo neste artigo fazer uma breve análise do processo de "miração" , ou "imagens mentais espontâneas" , que é o processo imaginativo experienciado durante o uso ritual da ayahuasca, bebida psicoativa utilizada por indígenas amazônicos e em algumas religiões brasileiras. A imaginação é vista como uma "força" , ou o poder da mente de distorcer imagens, e não de cria-las. A imaginação, longe...
Tourism Recreation Research June 22, 2016 Girish Prayag, Paolo Mura, Colin Michael Hall et al. 32 citations
This study critically evaluates the complex inter space of spirituality, drugs, and tourism through tourists' and shamans' accounts of ayahuasca tourism in Iquitos, Peru. Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic beverage traditionally consumed for spiritual and health purposes. Using micro-ethnography, one of the researchers was immersed for one month in the tourism experience of ayahuasca. The findings...
Journal of Psychopharmacology June 11, 2016 Rafael G. Dos Santos, Fermanda M Balthazar, José Carlos Bouso et al. 126 citations
Rationale: In recent decades, the use of ayahuasca (AYA) – a β-carboline- and dimethyltryptamine-rich hallucinogenic botanical preparation traditionally used by Northwestern Amazonian tribes for ritual and therapeutic purposes – has spread from South America to Europe and the USA, raising concerns about its possible toxicity and hopes of its therapeutic potential. Thus, it is important to...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs May 26, 2016 Amanda Amorin Nunes, Rafael G. Dos Santos, Flávia de Lima Osório et al. 92 citations
Recently, the anti-addictive potential of ayahuasca, a dimethyltryptamine(DMT)- and β-carboline-rich hallucinogenic beverage traditionally used by indigenous groups of the Northwest Amazon and currently by syncretic churches worldwide, has received increased attention. To better evaluate this topic, we performed a systematic literature review using the PubMed database to find quantitative...
April 29, 2016 Alana de Fátima Andrade Santos
AGRADECIMENTOSÀ minha orientadora Eloisa Dutra Caldas e co-orientadora Aline Pic-Taylor por me "adotarem" ainda na graduação me proporcionando conhecimento ao longo dos programas de Iniciação Científica.Por depositarem em mim a confiança necessária para a realização deste trabalho e por serem exemplos de mulheres e pesquisadoras excepcionais.
Debates em Psiquiatria April 29, 2016 Thaísa Silva Gios, Maria Carolina Pedalino Pinheiro, Elie Leal de Barros Calfat 1 citation
Alucinógenos são agentes químicos que induzem alterações na percepção, no pensamento e nas emoções. Entre os alucinógenos naturais há a ayahuasca, originalmente utilizada por tribos indígenas da Amazônia, preparada com a mistura de duas plantas: Banisteriopsis caapi, que contém β-carbolinas, um inibidor da monoamina oxidase (MAO), e Psychotria viridis, rica em N,N-dimetiltriptamina (DMT), que...
April 8, 2016 Domingos Bernardo Gialluisi Da Silva Sá, Christian Frenopoulo, Matthew Meyer 1 citation
This chapter presents the Brazilian Federal Narcotics Board, concerning the brew called ayahuasca, known in Brazil by the names 'Daime', 'Santo Daime' or 'Vegetal'. It evaluates a decade of non-policing government monitoring of ayahuasca use, in order to promote, from this pioneer experience, the adoption or modification of just public policies that are directed to the question of drugs,...
April 8, 2016 Sérgio Brissac, Lyzette Goes Telles Brissac 4 citations
The author focuses on the anthropological observation of Unio do Vegetal (UDV), which he started 15 years ago and continues up to the present, as well as on field research that he carried out in 1998 in the UDV unit called Nucleus Alto das Cordilheiras, in Campinas. It was the basis of author's Master's thesis in social anthropology the city of Campinas is situated in the State of Sao Paulo,...
April 8, 2016 Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Edward Macrae 78 citations
Foreword by Professor Andrew Dawson, Lancaster University Beatriz Labate, Edward MacRae and Sandra Goulart (Casper Libero College, Brazil) - Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions in perspective 1. Mariana C. Pantoja (Federal University of Acre, Brazil) and Osmildo da Silva Conceicao (Kuntanawa tribal leader) - The use of ayahuasca among rubber tappers of the Alto Jurua 2. Arneide Cemin (Federal...