Journal of Marketing Management
November 22, 2018
Andrew Kristoffer Dean
6 citations
This ethnographic study examines the magico-spiritual identity work and sensegiving, carried out by five indigenous South American shamans engaged in selling and delivering ayahuasca ceremonies. Although ayahuasca tourism is the most popular and pervasive form of psychoactive tourism, shamans are routinely stigmatised from selling indigenous knowledge, either as demonic witch doctors from their...
International Journal of Psychology and Psychoanalysis
November 14, 2018
Hesselink Jan M Keppel
7 citations
The impact of priests and their institutions is vanishing in our culture. This depletes the society from religious experiences. However, many are looking into new ways of experiencing the essence of life. One of the new sources inspiring people to reconnect with themselves and with nature can be found in shamanism. Since some decades now rituals from the Amazon based on herbal products such as...
Kulturní Studia
November 13, 2018
Sylvie Abbasová
This article considers the purpose of shamanism in the postmodern age. It explores why Western tourists travel to the shamans of the Amazon to participate in the shamanic ritual with ayahuasca. The field research focuses mainly on a description of Amazon shamanism from the perspective of both the shamans and the tourists. The practical work focuses primarily on the motives of passengers...
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
October 19, 2018
Rafael G. Dos Santos, José Alexandre S. Crippa, Flávia de Lima Osório et al.
9 citations
dos Santos, Rafael Guimarães PhD; Crippa, José Alexandre MD, PhD; Osório, Flávia de Lima PhD; Rocha, Juliana M. BSc; Rossi, Giordano Novak BSc; Marchioni, Camila BSc; Queiroz, Maria Eugênia Costa PhD; Silveira, Gabriela O. BSc; Yonamine, Mauricio PhD; Hallak, Jaime Eduardo Cecilio MD, PhD Author Information
Articulando e Construindo Saberes
October 11, 2018
Leandro Mendes Rocha, Marcelo Henrique Ribeiro Borges
RESUMOEste artigo aborda as tramas da emergência de religiosidade híbridas dematrizes afro-ameríndias centradas no uso ritualístico da ayahuasca apartir do estudo do caso do Daime, religiosidade cuja linhagem foi fundadapelo maranhense Raimundo Irineu Serra, em Rio Branco, Acre, durante ochamado ciclo da Borracha. Trata-se do estudo de religiosidades híbridasfrutos de processos identitários...
uO Research
October 3, 2018
Restrepo Hernández
1 citation
Ce travail propose comme objectif d'explorer anthropologiquement la rencontre entre le chercheur et les rapports complexes qui sont constitués par les rituels d'ingestion du yajé, guidés par les taitas kofanes dans le contexte d'un « tour » touristique dans la jungle amazonienne du Putumayo, en Colombie. Cependant, elle ne vise pas à présenter une « cosmovision synchrone » et « quasi...
Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology
October 1, 2018
C. Andrade
K anesthesia was introduced about half a century ago. In recent decades, this drug, in subanesthetic doses, has also demonstrated efficacy for off-label indications including treating acute and chronic pain, treating agitation, treating depression, and inducing sedation. Thus, there are studies of subanesthetic dosing with ketamine for treating pain in emergency medicine settings, treating...
Ilha Revista de Antropologia
October 1, 2018
Bernd Brabec de Mori
O canto dos Shipibo-Konibo (grupo indígena das terras baixas peruanas) em curasrituais revela que um marcador de tempo em sua linguagem vernacular pode se referir aum passado mítico e a um “mundo espiritual” do presente. Neste artigo serãoapresentados e analisados o passado recente do grupo no que diz respeito à bebidaayahuasca, o significado de seus trançados e sua identidade “étnica”. Aqui...
August 31, 2018
Ana Carolina Simão de Oliveira
DEDICATÓRIA Este trabalho é dedicado à todas as mulheres e homens que fizeram de suas experiências o núcleo deste trabalho e também àqueles que se interessaram manifestando o desejo de escuta por suas vozes.AGRADECIMENTOS O anseio para conhecer e aprender sobre o que é a ayahuasca fez o meu percurso neste processo um tanto exaustivo.Os atores desse trabalho me deram a oportunidade de...
Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
August 13, 2018
Rafael G. Dos Santos, José Carlos Bouso, Miguel Ángel Alcázar‐córcoles et al.
231 citations
Mood, anxiety, and substance-use disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders in the population. Although several pharmacological treatments are available, they are not effective for a significant proportion of patients and are associated with several adverse reactions. Therefore, new treatments should be explored. Recent studies suggest that serotonergic...