The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora
February 15, 2018 Mesturini, Silvia 26 citations
Ayahuasca's spread from the Amazon to Western societies has triggered varied legal and cultural responses. This edited collection examines how global religious groups, shamanic tourism, and recreational drug scenes centered on the psychoactive drink embody modern challenges. Contributors explore the bureaucratization of enchantment in religious practice and the sanitizing of indigenous rituals for tourists. Chapters include ethnographic studies of ritual, transnational religious ideology, healing politics, and invented traditions, alongside questions about commodification and the sacred-profane divide. The book offers material on ayahuasca's global expansion for students and academics across multiple disciplines.