Practices in search of legitimacy: the contemporary use of ayahuasca, between religious and therapeutic vindications

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: David Dupuis (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Έκδοση: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Θέματα: article
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In recent decades, the growing interest of Westerners in the psychotropic brew ayahuasca and the participation in exotic rituals has led to the multiplication of "shamanic centers" in the Peruvian Amazon. Among these, Takiwasi is a therapeutic community that welcomes hundreds of national a...