2019
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-018-0043-6
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Technologies of the Body in Contemporary Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Peruvian Amazon: Implications for Future Research

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“…One of the things that a shaman can do, and which nonshamans can learn as they become more experienced, is to control the visions—or more precisely to “catch up” with them and thus make sense of them. In addition to the visionary experience, ayahuasca causes sensitivity to light as well as violent vomiting and diarrhea, which are considered cleansing and healing to the body (Fotiou ).…”
Section: The Ayahuasca Experiencementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…One of the things that a shaman can do, and which nonshamans can learn as they become more experienced, is to control the visions—or more precisely to “catch up” with them and thus make sense of them. In addition to the visionary experience, ayahuasca causes sensitivity to light as well as violent vomiting and diarrhea, which are considered cleansing and healing to the body (Fotiou ).…”
Section: The Ayahuasca Experiencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Those ceremonies tend to be more informal, and although talking is common, it often focuses on giving advice to participants. As discussed elsewhere (Fotiou ; Fotiou ), for Amazonian populations, ayahuasca and other plants are used for their purgative properties to release things causing imbalance in the body, which are often perceived as the result of malicious intent on the part of an agent—human or nonhuman. Among some ethnic groups ayahuasca has been used for the purpose of becoming better hunters (Shepard ), and among others “there is almost no ritual present” in contexts outside of tourism (Brabec de Mori , 222).…”
Section: Discourse In Contemporary Ayahuasca Ritualsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, discourse about "mother earth" as a pan-Indian belief, which has been exposed as a western scholarly construction (Gill, 1987), contributes to a superficial engagement with Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies. Westerners tend to approach ayahuasca as a psychological tool, while the vast majority of evidence we have on Indigenous use indicates that ayahuasca and accompanying plants are used in very different manners, specifically to modify the body (Fotiou, 2019;Gow, 2013). The separation between physical, emotional, and spiritual is a western artifact and largely absent in Indigenous knowledge systems.…”
Section: Decolonizing Psychedelic Sciencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Practices like the dietas, common in ayahuasca shamanism, that numerous westerners participate in recent years are understudied. Although these constitute local technologies of the body (Fotiou, 2019), there is little scientific investigation to illuminate the mechanisms of acquiring knowledge and healing and communicating with plant entities.…”
Section: Decolonizing Psychedelic Sciencementioning
confidence: 99%
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