Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Foreword

ÓSCAR CALAVIA SÁEZ

1 A critical review of the literature on the diaspora of Brazilian ayahuasca religions

BEATRIZ CAIUBY LABATE AND GLAUBER LOURES DE ASSIS

2 Interpellations and challenges in the neoshamanic and ayahuasca fields in Uruguay

JUAN SCURO

3 “Altered by the hand of man”: contextualizing ayahuasca law in Britain and Europe

JONATHAN HOBBS

4 Santo Daime in a “post-Catholic” Ireland: reflecting and moving on

GILLIAN WATT

5 From the forest to the museum: notes on the artistic and spiritual collaboration between Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin people

ILANA SELTZER GOLDSTEIN AND BEATRIZ CAIUBY LABATE

6 The global expansion of ayahuasca through the Internet

MATTHEW CONRAD

7 Ayahuasca’s influence on gay identity

CLANCY CAVNAR

8 “Men,” “shaman,” and “ayahuasca” as overlapping clichés in the Peruvian vegetalismo

ANA GRETEL ECHAZÚ BÖSCHEMEIER AND CARL KEVIN CAREW

9 What ayahuasca wants: notes for the study and preservation of an entangled ayahuasca

SILVIA MESTURINI CAPPO

10 “La Dieta”: ayahuasca and the Western reinvention of indigenous Amazonian food shamanism

ALEX K. GEARIN AND BEATRIZ CAIUBY LABATE

11 Power and legitimacy in the reconfiguration of the yagecero field in Colombia

ALHENA CAICEDO FERNÁNDEZ

Index