La Selva Viajera: Rutas del chamanismo ayahuasquero entre Europa y América
Religião e Sociedade September 5, 2013 Anne-Marie Losonczy, Silvia Mesturini 24 citations
Chamanism today is a multipolar landscape shaped by regular movements of ritual experts and practitioners, and by the mobility and constant reconfiguration of ritual practices. These transcontinental journeys and stays transform local communities, leading them to reformulate their own internal or regional rituals. Transcontinental shamanism is structured along an organizational continuum at various scales that opens, frames, and reproduces itineraries linking territories of so-called 'ethnic' shamanism with urban recompositions at national and international levels. This continuum sits at the intersection of national and international 'urban shamanisms' built around the dual figure of the 'indigenous' and the 'jungle' as revalued symbolic resources. The text analyzes the central role of shamanic capacity, reclassified as 'knowledge', in rethinking symbolic hierarchies of national and international validity established during colonization.