El arte de ver. Chamanismo y búsqueda visionaria en los awajún (Perú)
Bulletin de l’Institut français d’études andines August 1, 2019 Sébastien Baud 3 citations
Among the Awajun people of Peru, personhood and the acquisition of a new soul are constructed through the use of psychotropic plants such as tobacco, angel trumpet, ayahuasca, and chagropanga, along with associated words, discourses, and implicit logics. These processes involve both shamanism and vision quests, which hold different meanings for common people versus shamans. The vision quest requires a purge and spiritual experience to become 'clean, beautiful, adorned' and achieve a life of plenty, while shamanic practice demands contamination to become prickly and access the invisible. These perspectives are opposite yet complementary, as shamanic practice protects individuals from magical aggression or witchcraft during the vision quest.