Contact Admin. Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora During its expansion from the Amazon jungle to Western societies, ayahuasca use has encountered different legal and cultural responses.
Following on from the earlier edited collection, The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora continues to explore how certain alternative global religious groups, shamanic tourism industries, and recreational drug milieus grounded in the consumption of the traditionally Amazonian psychoactive drink ayahuasca embody various challenges associated with modern societies. Chapters include ethnographic investigations of ritual practice, transnational religious ideology, the politics of healing, and the invention of tradition.
Larger questions on the commodification of ayahuasca and the categories of sacred and profane are also addressed. Exploring classic and contemporary issues in social science and the humanities, this book provides rich material on the bourgeoning expansion of ayahuasca use around the globe. As such, it will appeal to students and academics in religious studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, biology, ecology, law, and conservation.
Beatriz Caiuby Labate has a Ph. She currently works at a dual-diagnosis residential drug treatment center in San Francisco and is a research associate of the Nucleus for Interdisciplinary Studies of Psychoactives NEIP.
Vitality of Indigenous Religions Series Editors: Indigenous religions are vital and empowering for many thousands of indigenous peo- ples globally, and dialogue with, and consideration of, these diverse religious life-ways promises to challenge and refine the methodologies of a number of academic disciplines, whilst greatly enhancing understandings of the world. This series explores the development of contemporary indigenous reli- gions from traditional, ancestral precursors, but the characteristic contri- bution of the series is its focus on their living and current manifestations.
