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Uncertainty and misunderstanding in the construction of ritual interaction. Shamanic reinventions between Amazon and Europe.


Pages: 559 - 574

Abstract

The argument of this article is based on an ethnography of the consumer rites of ayahuasca which generate travel between South America and Europe by Shamans or users. The “ayahuasca shamanism” is a set of articulating South American ritual practices that emerge in Europe: it is the most common of the new forms of shamanism.