The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Reinventions and Controversies

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Ayahuasca is a psychoactive substance that has long been associated with indigenous Amazonian shamanic practices. The recent rise of the drink s visibility in the media and popular culture, and its rapidly advancing inroads into international awareness, mean that the field of ayahuasca is quickly expanding. This expansion brings with it legal problems, economic inequalities, new forms of ritual and belief, cultural misunderstandings, and other controversies and reinventions. In "The World Ayahuasca Diaspora," leading scholars, including established academics and new voices in anthropology, religious studies, and law fuse case-study ethnographies with evaluations of relevant legal and anthropological knowledge. They explore how the substance has impacted indigenous communities, new urban religiosities, ritual healing, international drug policy, religious persecution, and recreational drug milieus. This unique book presents classic and contemporary issues in social science and the humanities, providing rich material on the bourgeoning expansion of ayahuasca use around the globe." Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Author biographies Foreword: ayahuasca in the twenty-first century: having it both ways Introduction: the shifting journey of ayahuasca in diaspora 1 If tradition did not exist, it would have to be invented: retraditionalization and the world ayahuasca diaspora 2 Between ecstasy and reason: a symbolic interpretation of UDV trance 3 The religion of the forest: reflections on the international expansion of a Brazilian ayahuasca religion 4 Culling the spirits: an exploration of Santo Daime’s adaptation in Canada 5 A religious battle: musical dimensions of the Santo Daime diaspora 6 Good Mother Nature: ayahuasca neoshamanism as cultural critique in Australia 7 Aussiewaska: a cultural history of changa and ayahuasca analogues in Australia 8 Disentangling the ayahuasca boom: local impacts in Western Peruvian Amazonia 9 The economics of ayahuasca: money, markets, and the value of the vine 10 Global ayahuasca: an entrepreneurial ecosystem 11 A climate for change: ICEERS and the challenges of the globalization of ayahuasca 12 Ayahuasca in the English courts: legal entanglements with the jungle vine Index