Ayahuasca entre dos mundos
By: Carlos Suárez Álvarez
Edition: Primera edición
Publisher: Libros del Mono Blanco
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Madrid?
Language: spa
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9788409022854
Subjects: Ayahuasca; Pictorial works; Indians of South America; Drug use; Ayahuasca ceremony; Hallucinogenic plants
Description: Ayahuasca, an entheogenic brew, is ritually consumed and is also the object of scientific research that points to its therapeutic potential. Based on ten years of ethnographic research in the Amazon, this book documents both traditional practices and those adapted to the thousands of Westerners who visit the jungle every year to try this visionary medicine, and do so with an informative spirit, bringing knowledge that is usually reserved for academic circles to the general public. So instead of a neat analysis, this book uses beautiful and meaningful photographs with short literary pieces: the traditional scene, the funny anecdote, the ethnographic reflection, the moving testimony. But much more than an ethnographic treatise, it is an allegory about globalization, a critical look that reveals the way in which the West stretches across the planet, transforming everything in its path.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 143).