The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora : Appropriation, Integration and Legislation.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1 A critical review of the literature on the diaspora of Brazilian ayahuasca religions -- 2 Interpellations and challenges in the neoshamanic and ayahuasca fields in Uruguay -- 3 "Altered by the hand of man": contextualizing ayahuasca law in Britain and Europe -- 4 Santo Daime in a "post-Catholic" Ireland: reflecting and moving on -- 5 From the forest to the museum: notes on the artistic and spiritual collaboration between Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin people -- 6 The global expansion of ayahuasca through the Internet -- 7 Ayahuasca's influence on gay identity -- 8 "Men," "shaman," and "ayahuasca" as overlapping clichés in the Peruvian vegetalismo -- 9 What ayahuasca wants: notes for the study and preservation of an entangled ayahuasca -- 10 "La Dieta": ayahuasca and the Western reinvention of indigenous Amazonian food shamanism -- 11 Power and legitimacy in the reconfiguration of the yagecero field in Colombia -- Index.

This book explores 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.

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