Psychedelic plant medicines of the Americas : history, traditions, and indigenous voices / edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Henrique Fernandes Antunes, Nidia A. Olvera Hernández, and Clancy Canvar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Antunes, Henrique Fernandes, editor.

Labate, Beatriz Caiuby, editor.

Olvera Hernández, Nidia (Nidia A.), editor.

Cavnar, Clancy, editor.

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traditional medicine--America.

Traditional medicine.

Hallucinogenic plants--America.

Hallucinogenic plants.

Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages.)

Place of Publication:

©2026

Contents:

Ritual and traditional uses of marijuana in Mexico : a historical review / José D. Schievenini & Nidia A. Olvera Hernández

Ancestral medicines In Mexico City : re-semanticization of its "traditional use" in the twenty-first century / Alí Cortina Bello

Making peyote a medicine : the introduction of a psychoactive cactus into the Mexican pharmacy

/ Nidia A. Olvera Hernández & Ana Camacho

The path of day and night : Brugmansia suaveolens, a deadly and miraculous visionary medicine of the Amazon / Glenn Shepard Jr.

Embodied traditions : the case of a Brazilian ayahuasca church / Henrique Antunes, Beatriz Labate, Clancy Cavnar & Charles Hirschkind

Bakánoa, a sacred Rarámuri plant : uses, representations and ritual practices / Marco Vinicio Morales & Felipe Fuentes Chávez

Circles of coca : Hupd'äh shamans night meetings in the Alto Rio Negro region / Danilo Paiva Ramos

The meanings of peyote (jíkuli) Among the Rarámuri of the Upper Conchos River / Abel Rodríguez López

Charming tobacco snuff : notes on feminine agency among the Jarawara (Brazil) / Fabiana Maizza

Challenges in the contemporary expansion of the consumption of forest medicines : intercultural and gender controversies / Lígia Duque Platero

The ritual use of jurema beyond its psychoactive effects / Marcus Vinícius Barreto

Navigating the astral : flows and transformations in the rituals of Nixi Pae / Guilherme Pinho Meneses

Mambe in urban transition / Salima Cure

Modernity, resignificance and networks : a brief contemporary history of the sacred mushrooms in the Sierra Mazateca / Citlali Rodríguez

The Mazatec people in the face of the psychedelic renaissance / Osíris Garcia Cerqueda

Challenges in the dialogue between medical science and indigenous shamanic knowledge : an interview with Adana Kambeba / Lígia Platero, Henrique Antunes & Bia Labate

Earth's health first : an interview with Taita Pablo Chindoy / Paula Bizzi Junqueira & Jean Langdon

Forward on the path of our ancestors

Mazatec Indigenous activism and sacred : an interview with Heriberto Prado Pereda / Nicholas Spiers & Horacio Guevara

Leadership and vision of future : an Interview with Cacique Mariazinha Yawanawa / Cacique Mariazinha Yawanawa & Lígia Duque Platero

Twenty-first century transformations in the magical land of the peyote : an interview with Alberto Hernández / Diana Negrin

The ayahuasca Huni Kuin in the contemporary art space : an interview with Ibã Huni Kuin, the leader of Huni Kuin Artists Movement (MAHKU) / Leonardo Lessin

The Women's Yawanawa Cooperative : an interview with Júlia Yawanawa / Lígia Duque Platero

The role of Jurema in ethnic re-emergence in Brazil : an interview with Pajé Isaías Marcelino / Marcelo Leite

A peyote way : an interview with cultural knowledge keepers from the Native American Church of Canada, Kelly Daniels and Reanna Daniels / Erika Dyck

Wirikuta welcoming Iboga. Interethnic relations and spiritual alliances : an Interview with Mara 'Kame Ricardo Muñoz / Ali Cortina Bello.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Online version Psychedelic plant medicines of the Americas

ISBN:

9798889842446 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

90104575845

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