Journal ArticleCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment · December 1, 2022
Emblematic of the ubiquitous wet markets in China, the live-poultry trade has far-reaching influences on Chinese people's diet, culinary art, social interactions, and cultural identities. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the live-poultry trade has also b ...
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Journal ArticleTherapeutic advances in psychopharmacology · January 2021
AimsThe therapeutic use of psychedelics is regaining scientific momentum, but similarly psychoactive ethnobotanical substances have a long history of medical (and other) uses in indigenous contexts. Here we aimed to evaluate patient outcomes in a ...
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Journal ArticleDemocratic Theory · June 1, 2019
Amidst a global turn towards authoritarianism and populism, there are few contemporary examples of state-led democratization. This article discusses how Uruguay’s Frente Amplio (FA) party has drawn on a unique national democratic cultural heritage ...
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Chapter · March 15, 2019
Memorials to state violence can be read as cultural ledgers of what constitutes legitimate citizenship practice and acceptable citizen-state relations. I explore the significance of Argentinian and Australian memorials for understanding how political histo ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Latin American Religions · December 1, 2018
The Amazonian cosmos is a battlefield where beauty is possible but violent chaos rules. As a result, the Piaroa world is characterised by an ongoing battle between shamans who uphold, on behalf of all Piaroa, the ideal of ethical living, and forces of chao ...
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Journal ArticleCritique of Anthropology · September 1, 2018
Ayahuasca, a psychoactive plant decoction, has spread from indigenous communities in South America to urban areas in the Americas, Europe, and Australia where it is used in neoshamanic rituals. This paper draws on ethnography of Australian ayahuasca ceremo ...
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Journal ArticleCitizenship Studies · April 3, 2018
Despite drawing on different historical traditions and philosophical sources, Sheldon Wolin and Étienne Balibar have come to see citizenship and democracy in fundamentally similar ways. However, the work of one has not been considered alongside that of the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of psychoactive drugs · January 2011
Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses of yopo in light of ongoing proce ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of psychoactive drugs · September 2008
Recent attention to the monoamine oxidase inhibiting properties of Banisteriopsis caapi's harmala alkaloids has precluded a balanced assessment of B. caapi's overall significance to indigenous South American societies. Relatively little attention has been ...
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Journal ArticleAnthropology of Consciousness · March 2006
An overemphasis on the interpretation of language has impeded understanding of the cultural and cognitive logic of sorcery's focal acts: divination and sorcery battle. Among the Piaroa of southern Venezuela, divination and sorcery battle are conduc ...
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Journal ArticleAnthropology of Consciousness · September 2003
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge derived from visionary experiences. Märipa is an epistemology concerning the translation of knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness ...
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Journal ArticleCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment · December 1, 2022
Emblematic of the ubiquitous wet markets in China, the live-poultry trade has far-reaching influences on Chinese people's diet, culinary art, social interactions, and cultural identities. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the live-poultry trade has also b ...
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Journal ArticleTherapeutic advances in psychopharmacology · January 2021
AimsThe therapeutic use of psychedelics is regaining scientific momentum, but similarly psychoactive ethnobotanical substances have a long history of medical (and other) uses in indigenous contexts. Here we aimed to evaluate patient outcomes in a ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleDemocratic Theory · June 1, 2019
Amidst a global turn towards authoritarianism and populism, there are few contemporary examples of state-led democratization. This article discusses how Uruguay’s Frente Amplio (FA) party has drawn on a unique national democratic cultural heritage ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Chapter · March 15, 2019
Memorials to state violence can be read as cultural ledgers of what constitutes legitimate citizenship practice and acceptable citizen-state relations. I explore the significance of Argentinian and Australian memorials for understanding how political histo ...
Cite
Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Latin American Religions · December 1, 2018
The Amazonian cosmos is a battlefield where beauty is possible but violent chaos rules. As a result, the Piaroa world is characterised by an ongoing battle between shamans who uphold, on behalf of all Piaroa, the ideal of ethical living, and forces of chao ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleCritique of Anthropology · September 1, 2018
Ayahuasca, a psychoactive plant decoction, has spread from indigenous communities in South America to urban areas in the Americas, Europe, and Australia where it is used in neoshamanic rituals. This paper draws on ethnography of Australian ayahuasca ceremo ...
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Journal ArticleCitizenship Studies · April 3, 2018
Despite drawing on different historical traditions and philosophical sources, Sheldon Wolin and Étienne Balibar have come to see citizenship and democracy in fundamentally similar ways. However, the work of one has not been considered alongside that of the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of psychoactive drugs · January 2011
Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses of yopo in light of ongoing proce ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of psychoactive drugs · September 2008
Recent attention to the monoamine oxidase inhibiting properties of Banisteriopsis caapi's harmala alkaloids has precluded a balanced assessment of B. caapi's overall significance to indigenous South American societies. Relatively little attention has been ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleAnthropology of Consciousness · March 2006
An overemphasis on the interpretation of language has impeded understanding of the cultural and cognitive logic of sorcery's focal acts: divination and sorcery battle. Among the Piaroa of southern Venezuela, divination and sorcery battle are conduc ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleAnthropology of Consciousness · September 2003
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge derived from visionary experiences. Märipa is an epistemology concerning the translation of knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of psychoactive drugs · July 2002
Current understanding of the preparation and use of yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff made from the ground seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree, has departed little from the accounts of scientists and travelers made over a century ago. Schultes and others ...
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