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Cultures of power and politics: Two cases of the limits of anti‐essentialism in the political anthropology of lowland South America

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 61-70, March 2024.
Abstract Post‐structuralism's focus on hegemonic power, subjection, and political opportunity remains pre‐eminent in political anthropology, but its appropriateness for the post‐neoliberal conjuncture is up for question. While the arrival of neoliberal multiculturalism brought contingent identities and strategic deployment of culture‐as‐product into ...
Christian Tym, Silvana Saturno
wiley   +1 more source

Psychedelia: The interplay of music and psychedelics

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1531, Issue 1, Page 12-28, January 2024.
Music and psychedelics have a long history of use across cultures. We explore varied perspectives on the interplay between psychedelics and music, their potential neurological and neurocomputational overlaps, their use in ancient rituals and modern clinical settings, as well as the capacity for music to lead to altered states of consciousness in the ...
Katarina Jerotic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dimethyltryptamine: hallucinogenic alkaloid on the Central Nervous System

open access: yesActa Brasiliensis, 2018
Hallucinogenic plants are widely used in rituals and religious cults. Ayahuasca tea and wine black Jurema, both hallucinogenic beverages, present the alkaloid dimethyltryptamine (DMT) responsible for the hallucinogenic effect due to interaction with ...
Darliane Freire Almeida   +2 more
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Conocimientos locales, prácticas y usos contemporáneos atribuidos a la ayahuasca en el noroeste de la Amazonia peruana

open access: yesBoletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica
Introducción y objetivos: La ayahuasca es una bebida tradicionalmente empleada con fines curativos, tanto físicos como espirituales. Su uso se ha popularizado globalmente, generando interés turístico y una creciente demanda. Esta investigación tuvo como
E. Hanz Rodríguez-Cabrera   +10 more
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Toxicological Aspects and Determination of the Main Components of Ayahuasca: A Critical Review

open access: yesMedicines, 2019
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive beverage prepared traditionally from a mixture of the leaves and stems of Psychotria viridis and Banisteriopsis caapi, respectively, being originally consumed by indigenous Amazonian tribes for ritual and medicinal purposes ...
Ana Y. Simão   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toxicokinetics and Toxicodynamics of Ayahuasca Alkaloids N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), Harmine, Harmaline and Tetrahydroharmine: Clinical and Forensic Impact

open access: yesPharmaceuticals, 2020
Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic botanical beverage originally used by indigenous Amazonian tribes in religious ceremonies and therapeutic practices. While ethnobotanical surveys still indicate its spiritual and medicinal uses, consumption of ayahuasca has ...
Andreia Machado Brito-da-Costa   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

It’s Tea Time: Interference of Ayahuasca Brew on Discriminative Learning in Zebrafish

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew traditionally used in shamanistic and vegetalistic rituals and has recently received lot of attention due to potential cognitive benefits.
Bruno Lobao-Soares   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

De Plantis Toxicariis E Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes III: Phytochemical Examination of Spruce's Original Collection of Banisteriopsis caapi

open access: yesBotanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University, 1969
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Schultes, Richard Evans   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Behavioral Changes Over Time Following Ayahuasca Exposure in Zebrafish

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017
The combined infusion of Banisteriopsis caapi stem and Psychotria viridis leaves, known as ayahuasca, has been used for centuries by indigenous tribes.
Robson Savoldi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

El yoco del cielo es cultivado: perspectivas sobre Paullinia yoco en el chamanismo airo-pai (secoya-tucano occidental)

open access: yesAnthropologica, 2008
Este artículo asocia la cosmovisón chamánica y onírica de los airo-pai (secoya) con su manejo silvicultural del yoco (Paullinia yoco), una liana silvestre rica en cafeína, endémica del refugio del pleistocénico del Napo.
Luisa Elvira Belaunde   +1 more
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