A hallucinogenic tea, laced with controversy
Subtitle: ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States
By: Marlene Dobkin de Rios and Roger Rumrrill.
Contributors: Rumrrill, Róger.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313345425
Subjects: Ayahuasca -- Psychotropic effects.; Banisteriopsis -- South America.; Banisteriopsis -- United States.; Hallucinogens -- South America.; Hallucinogens -- United States.; Drug and Narcotic Control -- history -- South America.; Drug and Narcotic Control -- history -- United States.; Ethnopharmacology -- South America.; Ethnopharmacology -- United States.; Plant Preparations -- therapeutic use -- South America.; Plant Preparations -- therapeutic use -- United States.; Shamanism -- history -- South America.; Shamanism -- history -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Native use of ayahuasca; title: Drug tourism; title: Shamanic power and hallucinogens; title: The new shamans; title: The UDV and the U.S. Supreme Court; title: Globalization and the future of ayahuasca.