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Ayahuasca, Iquitos and Monster Vorāx - By Carlos Suárez Álvarez


Web link: www.ayahuascaiquitos.com/en/index....

Abstract

Ayahuasca, Iquitos and Monster Vorax is a series of multimedia books that combine ethnographic research, literature and audiovisual creation to show the extraordinary phenomenon of ayahuasca in Iquitos, a shamanic mecca where the local collides with the global. This allegory of Western expansion is composed, so far, of two installments: the first one, like the series, is titled Ayahuasca, Iquitos and Monster Vorax; the second is entitled A Cash Crop. There will be more as it is a never-ending project: the idea is to visit the place every so often to show different aspects of it, the evolution of the phenomenon and the people portrayed.