Alex K. Gearin: Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds 1st Edition

Description: Alex K. GearinGlobal Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern WorldsFirst Edition Softcover Stanford University Press, 2024 New Book Book Publishing Details Author: Alex K. Gearin Full title:Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern WorldsPublisher:Stanford University Press, 2024Edition:First EditionBinding:SoftcoverEAN:9781503639836Book ID:0034489 Comments & Item FeaturesFirst Edition. Category: Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia. Language: English. EAN: 9781503639836. 23cm x 15cm. 296 pages. Illustrated wrappers. "Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the spiritual gateway to archaic and primordial worlds, with reports of healing, spiritual insight, and awe-inspiring visions placing ayahuasca among the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicines. Astonished and allured by descriptions of ayahuasca experiences, researchers in psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have attempted to define the shared properties of the visions. In this book, Alex Gearin challenges this simplified obsession with universal truth and explores the embodied practices of contemporary ayahuasca drinkers to reveal how the brew has conjured contradictory experiences across the globe. These range from urban disenchantment and capitalist mastery to competitive sorcery and ecological harmony, wherein the plant-induced visions embody different attitudes towards capitalist modernity. Based upon ethnographic research among Shipibo healers in remote Peru, alternative medicine groups in urban Australia, and entrepreneurs and corporate managers in mainland China, Global Ayahuasca examines how the wondrous visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing different tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life." (publisher's blurb) Book Condition ReportBook Condition: New Book. Size of Item & Shipped WeightShipped Weight: .45 kilos. Shipping & ReturnsWe pack all of our books with the protection they need to arrive in the exact condition they are sent out in, guaranteed. Standard delivery is 3 to 10 business days. International parcels can take up to 45 days. International EMS and FedEx available by quote. 30 day return for any reason. Items guaranteed as described. Change of mind returns at buyer's expense. Missing parcels replaced or refunded. Replacements or refunds for missing parcels not issued until postal carrier has concluded investigation.Local PickupPickup is welcome from our retail store, The Book Merchant Jenkins, located in Woolloongabba, Brisbane.About The Book Merchant JenkinsYarran L. Jenkins has been an independent book merchant since 2006. He is a member in good standing of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB), and the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), and an ILAB affiliate.Keywords and Associated TermsBZDB407 Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia::Ayahuasca; Unbranded EAN: 9781503639836 Alex K. Gearin Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds

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