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The use of psychotropic substances : between savagery and co-culturation.


Web link: www.cairn.info/revue-psy...

Pages: 19 - 33

Abstract

Drugs are situated differently among cultural contexts in human societies. From occidental consumption « without setting » to shamanic ritual utilisation, the use of substances such as hallucinogens is a pertinent indicator for approaching fundamental differences, concerning knowledge, nature of reality and self-conception, relation to others and world.