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Ayahuasca shamanism in the Amazon and beyond

Title
Ayahuasca shamanism in the Amazon and beyond [electronic resource] / edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors
Labate, Beatriz Caiuby.
Description
1 online resource (xxv, 288 pages)
Series Statement
Oxford ritual studies
Uniform Title
Ayahuasca shamanism in the Amazon and beyond (Online)
Subject
  • Ayahuasca ceremony > Cross-cultural studies
  • Shamanism > Cross-cultural studies
  • Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience > Cross-cultural studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: Authentic Ayahuasca by Oscar Calavia Saéz -- Introduction: Notes on the Expansion and Reinvention of Ayahuasca Shamanism - Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, and Françoise Barbira Freeman -- 1. Will the Real Shaman Please Stand Up? The Recent Adoption of Ayahuasca among Indigenous Groups of the Peruvian Amazon - Glenn H. Shepard Jr. -- 2. Kuntanawa: Ayahuasca, Ethnicity, and Culture - Mariana Ciavatta Pantoja -- 3. Materializing Alliances: Ayahuasca Shamanism In and Beyond Western Amazonian Indigenous Communities - Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen -- 4. Medicine Alliance: Contemporary Shamanic Networks in Brazil - Esther Jean Langdon and Isabel Santana de Rose -- 5. Ritualized Misunderstanding between Uncertainty, Agreement and Rupture: Communication Patterns in Euro-American Ayahuasca Ritual Interactions - Anne-Marie Losonczy and Silvia Mesturini Cappo -- 6. Shamans' Networks in Western Amazonia: The Iquitos-Nauta Road - Françoise Barbira Freedman -- 7. On the Uneasiness of Tourism: Considerations on Shamanic Tourism in Western Amazonia - Evgenia Fotiou -- 8. The Internationalization of Peruvian Vegetalismo - Beatriz Caiuby Labate -- 9. From the Native's Point of View: How Shipibo-Konibo Experience and Interpret Ayahuasca-Drinking with ''Gringos'' - Bernd Brabec de Mori -- 10. Ayahuasca's Attractions and Distractions: Examining Sexual Seduction in Shaman-Participant Interactions - Daniela Peluso -- 11. Yage Related Neo-Shamanism in Colombian Urban Contexts - Alhena Caicedo Fernández -- Index.
LCCN
2013039105
OCLC
ssj0001225782
Title
Ayahuasca shamanism in the Amazon and beyond [electronic resource] / edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series
Oxford ritual studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Labate, Beatriz Caiuby.
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