Por que a ayahuasca? Da internacionalização de uma prática ritual ameríndia
Anuário Antropológico January 1, 2011 Anne‐marie Losonczy, Silvia Mesturini 6 citations
Beyond its local and regional uses, ayahuasca now functions in globalized networks as both a diacritical sign and a core site for negotiating and distributing meaning and legitimacy, symbolically reconfiguring relationships among actors at the new interface between local Indigenous groups and the urban, Latin American, or international world. Understanding ayahuasca's contemporary success requires grasping the dynamic between continuity and emerging cultural and social creations that constitute the historical and present web of contacts and mutual adaptations among diverse Amazonian peoples and between the Amazonian world and its visitors, representatives of successive external powers.