Alex K Gearin: Global Ayahuasca | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781503639836 | Global Ayahuasca | Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds | Alex K Gearin

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Beschreibung

"Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the spiritual gateway to archaic and primordial worlds, with reports of healing, spiritual insight, and awe-inspiring visions placing ayahuasca among the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicines. Astonished and allured by descriptions of ayahuasca experiences, researchers in psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have attempted to define the shared properties of the visions. In this book, Alex Gearin challenges the simplified obsession with universal or primordial truth that has pervaded inquiries into ayahuasca experiences, and explores the practices of contemporary ayahuasca drinkers to reveal how the brew has conjured contradictory visions across the globe. These range from urban disenchantment and capitalist mastery to competitive sorcery and ecological harmony, wherein the plant-induced visions embody different attitudes towards capitalist modernity. Based upon ethnographic research among Shipibo healers in remote Peru, alternative medicine groups in urban Australia, and enterprising individuals in mainland China, Global Ayahuasca examines how the wondrous visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life"--

Über den Autor

Alex K. Gearin is Assistant Professor at the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, The University of Hong Kong. He is the co-editor of The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Controversies and Reinventions.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Colonial and Postcolonial Roots

2. Global Shamanic Tourism in Peru

3. Wonder and Healing on Retreat

4. Natural Medicine in Australia

5. Becoming Modern in China

6. Integration and Society

Conclusion: Visionary Contexts

Epilogue

References

Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Grenzwissenschaften
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Esoterik & Anthroposophie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781503639836
ISBN-10:	1503639835
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gearin, Alex K
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Alex K Gearin
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.08.2024
Gewicht:	0,44 kg

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