| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
949929
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b704299
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Dobkin de Rios, Marlene.
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
A hallucinogenic tea, laced with controversy : : ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States /\ Marlene Dobkin de Rios and Roger Rumrrill.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Westport, Conn. :: Praeger,, 2008.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource (162 pages)
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0313345430
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780313345432
|
|
|
:
|
0313345422
|
|
|
:
|
9780313345425
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159) and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Native use of ayahuasca -- Drug tourism -- The new shamans -- The União de Vegetal and the U.S. Supreme Court -- Globalization and the future of ayahuasca.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United States are well aware. For centuries, a hallucinogenic tea made from a giant vine native to the Amazonian rainforest has been taken as a religious sacrament across several cultures in South America. Many spiritual leaders, shamans, and their followers consider the tea and its main component - ayahuasca - to be both enlightening and healing. In fact, ayahuasca (pronounced a-ja-was-ka) loosely translated means spirit vine. In this book, de Rios and Rumrrill take us inside the history and realm of, as.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ayahuasca-- Psychotropic effects.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Drug control-- South America.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Drug control-- United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Shamans-- South America.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Shamans-- United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Banisteriopsis.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Drug and Narcotic Control-- history.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ethnopharmacology.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Hallucinogens.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Plant Preparations-- therapeutic use.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Shamanism-- history.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ayahuasca
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ayahuasca-- Psychotropic effects.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ayahuasca-- Amazonien.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ayahuasca-- USA.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Drug control.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Shamans.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Customs Traditions.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
South America.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Amazonastiefland
|
| Subject
|
:
|
South America.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
USA.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
394.1/4
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
BF209.A93D63 2008eb
|
| NLM classification
|
:
|
2008 K-143
|
|
|
:
|
QV 77.7D633ha 2008
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Rumrrill, Róger.
|