Este capítulo apresenta a reflexão sobre os contatos e intercâmbios entre usuários de ayahuasca e de peiote em contextos rituais no México. Diferentemente do que opinam outros autores, os contatos e usos alternados ou combinados dessas substâncias enteógenas não acontecem de forma descontextualizada, constante ou desterritorializada. Essas novas formas revelam negociações ou acordos...
This study focuses on the notions of 'ruins', 'savage knowledge', and 'American race' in the works of the German naturalist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868). A somewhat neglected figure in the history of anthropology and of natural history, Martius was regarded by scholars from Europe and the Americas as a leading figure in botany and ethnology in the nineteenth century. In this...
L’émergence du « tourisme chamanique » dans certaines zones urbaines et dans des villages shipibo-konibo est à l’origine d’une recrudescence des pratiques sorcellaires vernaculaires, désormais intégrées au nouveau contexte sociologique de commercialisation du chamanisme végétaliste local. Ces attaques occultes visent non seulement des praticiens rivaux mais aussi des touristes en quête d’une...
D’invisibles à hyper-médiatisées : femmes chamanes shipibo-konibo et tourisme par ayahuasca en Amazonie occidentale. Un article de la revue Les Cahiers du CIÉRA (Genres et identités : perspectives autochtones contemporaines. Actes du 17ème colloque du CIÉRA 2019) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
El 24 de junio de 2008, el Gobierno peruano declaró el «conocimiento y usos tradicionales de la Ayahuasca practicados por las comunidades nativas amazónicas» como Patrimonio Cultural de la Nación. La inspiración que llevó a este importante logro fue proteger el uso ritual del brebaje Ayahuasca como tradicionalmente practicado durante siglos por las comunidades indígenas amazónicas, incluyendo...
During the 2020 COVID-19 epidemic a variety of social activities migrated online, including religious ceremonies and rituals. One such instance is the case of Santo Daime, a Brazilian rainforest religion that utilizes the hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca in its rituals. During the pandemic, multiple Santo Daime rituals involving the consumption of ayahuasca took place online, mediated through Zoom...
Folk healing is one of the oldest, most important objects of the study of oral folk art. It is important to study the history, to determine the place of folk healing in science. In Kazakh folklore science, the roots of folk healing, known by various names, have their roots in the pre-Islamic Turkic belief system. At the root of the Kazakh traditional folk healing are the Kok-Tengri religion,...
While participating in some ceremonies in so-called shamanic contexts, I was faced with a dilemma: how to give anthropological meaning to seemingly extraordinary experiences, such as the vision of death? How to respond to fellow anthropologists who kept asking me: did you really see death? And, most importantly, how to respond without falling into the false opposition of the anthropologist’s...
Introduction: N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is an endogenous serotonergic psychedelic capable of producing radical shifts in conscious experience. Increasing trends in its use, as well as new trials administering DMT to patients, indicate the growing importance of a thorough elucidation of the qualitative content, over and above structure, which the drug occasions. This is particularly in light...
With earlier origins and a rebirth in the late 1990s, the New Animisms and the precipitate ‘ontological turn’ have now been in full swing since the mid-2000s. They make a valuable contribution to the interpretation of the rock arts of numerous societies, particularly in their finding that in animist societies, there is little distinction between nature and culture, religious belief and...