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Informationen zum Autor Beatriz Caiuby Labate has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)! Brazil. Her main areas of interest are the study of psychoactive substances! drug policy! shamanism! ritual! and religion. She is Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco and Visiting Professor at the Center for Research and Post Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Guadalajara. She is co-founder of the Drugs! Politics! and Culture Collective! in Mexico (http://drogaspoliticacultura.net)! and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil! as well as editor of NEIP's website (http://www.neip.info). She is also Chief Editor at Chacruna (http://chacruna.net). She is author! co-author! and co-editor of seventeen books! one special-edition journal! and several peer-reviewed articles (http://bialabate.net).Clancy Cavnar has a doctorate in clinical psychology (Psy.D.) from John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill! CA. She currently works in private practice in San Francisco! and is an associate editor at Chacruna (http://chacruna.net)! a venue for publication of high-quality academic short texts on plant medicines. She is also a research associate of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP). She combines an eclectic array of interests and activities as clinical psychologist! artist! and researcher. She has a master of fine arts in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute! a master's in counseling from San Francisco State University! and she completed the Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is author and co-author of articles in several peer-reviewed journals and co-editor! with Beatriz Caiuby Labate! of eight books. For more information see: http://neip.info/pesquisadore/clancy-cavnar Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Ayahuasca and its Controversies Óscar Calavia Sáez?1. A Critical Review of the Literature on the Diaspora of Brazilian Ayahuasca ReligionsBeatriz Caiuby Labate and Glauber Loures de Assis2. Interpellations and Challenges in the Neoshamanic and Ayahuasca Fields in UruguayJuan Scuro3. "Altered by the Hand of Man": Contextualizing Ayahuasca Law in Britain and EuropeJonathan Hobbs4. Santo Daime in a "Post-Catholic" Ireland: Reflecting and Moving onGillian Watt5. From Village to Forest: Artistic-Spiritual Partnerships between Ernesto Neto and the Huni KuinIlana Seltzer Goldstein & Beatriz Caiuby Labate6. The Global Expansion of Ayahuasca through the Internet Matthew Conrad7. Ayahuasca's Influence on Gay IdentityClancy Cavnar8. "Men!" "Shaman!" and "Ayahuasca" as Overlapping Clichés in the Peruvian VegetalismoAna Gretel Echazú Böschemeier & Carl Kevin Carew9. What Ayahuasca Wants: Notes for the Study and Preservation of an Entangled AyahuascaSilvia Mesturini Cappo10. "La Dieta": The Western Reinvention of Indigenous Amazonian Food ShamanismAlex K. Gearin & Beatriz Caiuby Labate11. Power and Legitimacy in the Reconfiguration of the Yagecero Field in ColombiaAlhena Caicedo Fernández ...
