The Importance of Ritual Discourse in Framing Ayahuasca Experiences in the Context of Shamanic Tourism
In this article, I discuss how ritual is framed in the context of ayahuasca tourism, using ethnographic data collected in and around Iquitos, Peru. Alluding to a lack of socially sanctioned spaces for altered states of consciousness (ASCs) in western cultures, contemporary seekers flock to the Amazo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Anthropological Association
[2020]
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| In: |
Anthropology of consciousness
Year: 2020, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 223-244 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Western world
/ Tourism
/ Iquitos (Region)
/ Ayahuasca
/ Shamanism
/ Ritual
/ Healing
/ Consciousness expansion
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBR Latin America |
| Further subjects: | B
Shamanism
B Ayahuasca B Ritual B Amazonia B Framing |
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