Beatriz Caiuby Labate - The expanding world Ayahuasca diaspora: appropriation, integration, and legislation

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.

Each contributor explores the symbolic effects of a bureaucratization of enchantment in religious practice and the sanitizing of indigenous rituals for tourist markets. 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.D. in Social Anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She is Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, USA, and Visiting Professor at the Center for Research and Post Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Clancy Cavnar has a doctorate in clinical psychology (PsyD) from John F. Kennedy University. 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).

Series Editors:

Graham Harvey, Open University, UK

Afeosemime Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

Ins Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora

Appropriation, Integration and Legislation

Edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar

Edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar

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Names: Labate, Beatriz Caiuby, editor.

Title: The expanding world Ayahuasca diaspora : appropriation, integration, and legislation / edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Vitality of indigenous religions | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017052864 | ISBN 9780415786188 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315227955 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: AyahuascaBrazil. | TourismBrazil. | Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experienceBrazil.

Classification: LCC BF209.A93 E97 2018 | DDC 154.4dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017052864

ISBN: 978-0-415-78618-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-22795-5 (ebk)

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