This book highlights the theme of music in the ayahuasca religions of Santo Daime (both the Cefluris and Alto Santo groups) and the União do Vegetal (UDV). Although most studies of the ayahuasca religions recognize the centrality of music in their rituals, the study of the music itself has generally been secondary to other themes, Read More

This collection is composed of 22 articles, an introduction and a foreword. It brings together perspectives from the social and biomedical sciences as well as personal accounts of ayahuasca shamans and practitioners in order to address diverse indigenous, mestizo and Western concepts of health, illness and curing related to the use of ayahuasca.  Through a comparative analysis Read More

This book presents a series of perspectives on the therapeutic potential of  the ritual and clinical use of the Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca in the treatment and management of various diseases and ailments, especially its role in psychological well-being and substance dependence. Biomedical and anthropological data on the use of ayahuasca for treating depression, PTSD, Read More

This book addresses the use and regulation of traditional drugs such as peyote, ayahuasca, coca leaf, cannabis, khat and Salvia divinorum. The uses of these substances can often be found at the intersection of diverse areas of life, including politics, medicine, shamanism, religion, aesthetics, knowledge transmission, socialization, and celebration. The collection analyzes how some of Read More

This book discusses how Amerindian epistemology and ontology related to certain indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon spread to Western societies, and how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have dialogued with and transformed these forest traditions. The collection also focuses on how shamanic rituals have been spreading and developing in post-traditional urban contexts throughout the Read More

O livro faz uma etnografia de um grupo daimista ligado ao que se poderia denominar genericamente de Alto Santo, em Porto Velho, Rondônia, umas das vertentes mais antigas e ortodoxas do Santo Daime.

Sempre prezando pela pluralidade, este livro reúne perspectivas e investigações que têm como objetivo fomentar discussões. Para iniciar o debate, Antonio Nery Filho apresenta um texto que questiona Por que os humanos usam drogas. Então, a obra divide-se em três partes: Da cultura, que aborda questões de natureza social e cultural; Da clínica, que reúne relatos de Read More

Publicado originalmente em inglês, em 1978 (Pratical Paradise Publications), com uma segunda versão em Londres (Hassle Free Press), no mesmo ano, traduzido ao espanhol na Colômbia (El Ancora Editores-Editorial La Oveja Negra) em 1981 e no mesmo ano ao alemão (Verlag Roter Funke), com uma nova edição em La Paz (Hisbol) em 1992 e outra Read More

Sexta edição do livro Mama Coca, versão corrigida pelo autor, publicada pela primeira vez no Peru. Inclui uma apresentação do professor Baldomero Cáceres Santa María e uma apresentação do autor no Foro Social Temático em Cartagena das Índias, Colômbia, 19 de junho de 2003.

The contributors to Big Deal look at: the politics of the drug trade; cocaine and US imperialism in Latin America; the involvement of the mafia; women and addctions; the pharmaceutical industry and illicit drugs; the structure of the heroin market; drug users and unemplyment. The authors expose the financial interests involved, the graft and corrpution Read More