Research Catalog

Title

Ayahuasca reader : encounters with the Amazon's sacred vine / edited by Luis Eduardo Luna, Steven F. White.

Publication

Santa Fe, NM : Synergetic Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Luna, Luis Eduardo
• White, Steven F., 1955-

Description

ix, 463 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map; 23 cm

Summary

This book is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience, including indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as stories related by western travellers, scientists and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts. In addition to contributions from Wade Davis, Dennis McKenna and Richard Spruce, this new edition includes essays from Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Susana Bustos, Michael Winkelman and a new section on ayahuasca art. This backlist classic, also, includes contributions from leaders of the global ayahuasca movement, making this the most up-to-date collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published, an essential reference for anthropology, ethnobotany and Latin American literature studies.

Alternative Title

• Encounters with the Amazon's sacred vine
• Amazon's sacred vine

Subjects

• Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
• Indians of South America > Ethnobotany
• Ayahuasca > Therapeutic use
• Indians of South America > Drug use
• Ayahuasca > Psychotropic effects
• Ayahuasca > Physiological effect
• Amazon River Region
• Indians of South America > Ethnobotany > Amazon River Region
• Hallucinogens
• Ayahuasca > Therapeutic use > Amazon River Region
• Ayahuasca > In literature
• Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience > South America > Amazon River Region
• Plants, Medicinal
• Banisteriopsis
• Indians of South America > Drug use > Amazon River Region
• South America
• Shamanism > Amazon River Region
• Indians, South American > ethnology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index.

Language (note)

• Text primarily in English with some Portuguese and other languages.

Contents

• I. AYAHUASCA MYTHS AND TESTIMONIES -- Yaje : Myth and Ritual / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff -- The Creation Myth / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff -- A Visit to the Second Heaven : A Siona Narrative of the Yage Experience / E. Jean Matteson Langdon -- Two Ayahuasca Myths from the Cashinahua of Northwestern Brazil / Elsje Maria Lagrou -- Mythologies of the Vine / Oscar Calavia Saez -- A Huaorani Myth of the First Miiyabu (Ayahuasca Vine) / Jonathon S. Miller Weisberger -- Initiation Experience / Alberto Prohano -- Light of This World / Don Hilario Pena -- Unamarai, Father of Yaje / Hugo Nino -- At the End You See God / Fernando Payaguaje -- II. AYAHUASCA CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS -- On Some Remarkable Narcotics of the Amazon Valley and Orinoco / Richard Spruce -- First Known Printed Reference to Ayahuasca (1675) / Jose Chantre y Herrera -- The Drug that Makes Men Brave / Gordon MacCreagh -- Discovering the Way / Michael Harner --
• Note continued: A Yaje Session / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff -- Yage Nostalgia / Scott S. Robinson -- The Spears of Twilight : Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle / Philippe Descola -- One River : Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest / Wade Davis -- Becoming-Jaguar / C. William Torres -- The Jaguar Who Would Not Say Her Prayers : Changing Polarities in Upper Amazonian Shamanism / Francoise Barbira Freedman -- Montage / Michael Taussig -- Design Therapy / Angelika Gebhart-Sayer -- Healing Icaros in Peruvian Vegetalismo / Susana Bustos -- Tracking the River of Change : A Multidimensional Interpretation of Ayahuasca Healing The Heart : Hungarian Ethnobotanical and Ayahuasca Research Team / Attila Szabo -- Through the Void : A Cognitive Testimony / Jan Kounen -- Twenty Years Later / Francois Demange -- Some Observations on the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience / Luis Eduardo Luna -- Ayahuasca as Antidote / Jeremy Narby --
• Note continued: III. NEW RELIGIONS: SANTO DAIME, BARQUINHA, AND UNIAO DO VEGETAL (UDV) -- Hymns / Francisca Campos do Nascimento -- The Book of Visions: Journey to Santo Daime (excerpt) / Alex Polari de Alverga -- An Unusual Experience with "Hoasca" : A Lesson From the Teacher / Dennis J. McKenna -- IV. WRITING AYAHUASCA -- The Vortex (excerpt) / Jose Eustasio Rivera -- The Yage Letters / Allen Ginsberg -- Men of Chazuta / F. Bruce Lamb -- The Three Halves of Ino Moxo (excerpt) / Cesar Calvo -- Ayahuasca, or What There is at the End / Mario Villafranca Saravia -- Returning / Ib Michael -- Aerial Waters / Nestor Perlongher -- The Mother of the Voice in the Ear (excerpt) / Alfonso Domingo -- Rio NAPO / Dale Pendell -- From Sworn to the Plants / Steven F. White -- Ayahuasca in My Art and Philosophy / Alex Grey -- Ayahuasca / Juan Carlos Galeano -- The Woman I Could Have Been / Esthela Calderon -- Icaro of the Yacumama / Ana Varela Tafur --
• Note continued: Rite of Passage / Percy Vilchez Vela -- Ayahuasca Gave Me a Story / Graham Hancock -- V. AYAHUASCA IN VISUAL EXPRESSION -- List of Color Plates, Ayahuasca in Visual Expression.

Call Number

JFE 19-5541

ISBN

• 9780907791492
• 0907791492
• 9780907791591
• 090779159X
• 9780907791607 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015051096

OCLC

988045754

Title

Ayahuasca reader : encounters with the Amazon's sacred vine / edited by Luis Eduardo Luna, Steven F. White.

Publisher

Santa Fe, NM : Synergetic Press, [2016]

Edition

New edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index.

Language

Text primarily in English with some Portuguese and other languages.

Local Note

Library's copy signed by both editors.

Added Author

Luna, Luis Eduardo, editor.

White, Steven F., 1955- editor.

Other Form:

Online version Ayahuasca reader Second edition. Santa Fe : Synergetic Press, [2016] 9780907791607 (DLC) 2016002877

Research Call Number

JFE 19-5541