Fieldwork in Religion
November 27, 2008
Mariana Ciavatta Pantoja, Osmildo Silva Da Conceição
1 citation
The article is the fruit of co-authorship between an anthropologist with long research experience in the area of the Extractivist Reserve of the Alto Juruá, in the far west of the state of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon, and a rubber tapper who was first introduced to ayahuasca in the context of a rubber camp. His initiation has elements of non-indigenous and indigenous culture and results in a...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
September 1, 2008
Robin Rodd
22 citations
Recent attention to the monoamine oxidase inhibiting properties of Banisteriopsis caapi's harmala alkaloids has precluded a balanced assessment of B. caapi's overall significance to indigenous South American societies. Relatively little attention has been paid to the cultural contexts, local meanings and patterns of use of B. caapi among snuff-using societies, such as the Piaroa, who do not...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 2008
Sara E. Lewis
40 citations
ABSTRACT There is an increased controversy surrounding Westerners' use of ayahuasca. One issue of importance is psychological resiliency of users and lack of screening by ayahuasca tourism groups in the Amazon. Given the powerful effects of ayahuasca coupled with lack of cultural support, Western users are at increased risk for psychological distress. Many Westerners who experience...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
June 1, 2008
Ronald K Bullis
24 citations
In 2006, the Supreme Court paved the way for the sacramental use of a hallucinogen, hoasca, to be imported, distributed and ingested by a religious group. This case has broad implications for religious freedom for using sacramental psychotropics and how such cases might be decided in the future. This article outlines the arguments used both by the church and by the government. It lists the...
Biomedical Chromatography
May 27, 2008
Cristiana Gambelunghe, Kyriaki Aroni, Riccardo Rossi et al.
52 citations
Abstract Recently many people have shown great interest in traditional indigenous practices and popular medicine, involving the ingestion of natural psychotropic drugs. We received a request to analyze and determine the nature of a dark green liquid with a dark brown plant sediment, which the police had seized at an airport and inside the home of a person belonging to the ‘Santo Daime’...
Fieldwork in Religion
April 12, 2008
Robin M. Wright
3 citations
This article reviews the forthcoming issue of FIR containing an important collection of articles on the origins and developments of religious movements and, later, research movements focused on a powerful psychoactive beverage consisting of the mixture of certain vines (ayahuasca) and leaves (chacrona) found mainly in Western Amazonia. The religious interpretations resulting from the ritual...
Addiction Research & Theory
2008
Phil Dalgarno
16 citations
Since the mid 1990's a number of publications have appeared in the UK and Europe and stimulated interest in a number of psychoactive plants native to South and Central America that had previously been relatively obscure outside of their places of origin. While information describing the effects of these together with extraction techniques was widely available, the plants themselves remained...
Phytothérapie
December 1, 2007
Laís M. S. de Lima, S. M. Ferreira, A. -a. L. Ávila et al.
28 citations
Un échantillon de la boisson ayahuasca contenant les alcaloïdes harmalol, harmol, harmane et N,N-diméthyltryptamine a été évalué dans les tests de nage forcée et d'open-field. Dans le test de nage forcée, les doses ont diminué le temps d'immobilité d'une manière inversement proportionnelle à la dose. Des doses de 2,5 mg/kg et de 10 mg/kg d'ayahuasca ont diminué aussi l'activité locomotrice et...
Psychopharmacology
November 20, 2007
Manel J. Barbanoj, Jordi Riba, S. Clos et al.
74 citations
ObjectivesAyahuasca is a traditional South American psychoactive beverage and the central sacrament of Brazilian-based religious groups, with followers in Europe and the United States. The tea contains the psychedelic indole N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and beta-carboline alkaloids with monoamine oxidase-inhibiting properties that render DMT orally active. DMT interacts with serotonergic...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
April 26, 2007
Rafael G. Dos Santos, J. Landeira-Fernández, Rick J. Strassman et al.
206 citations
The use of the hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca, obtained from infusing the shredded stalk of the malpighiaceous plant Banisteriopsis caapi with the leaves of other plants such as Psychotria viridis, is growing in urban centers of Europe, South and North America in the last several decades. Despite this diffusion, little is known about its effects on emotional states. The present study...