SUMMARY From over 20 years of working with shamans and their apprentices in northern Peru the United States, this article describes my own journey from scientist skeptic to humanist adept. It tells fundamental shift consciousness I experienced as a result specific instance which veil between seen unseen worlds temporarily lifted, allowing me engage Spirit new ways. presents, shift, struggles have faced redefining relationship work an anthropologist. Finally, it suggests some advantages our...

ABSTRACT This paper discusses archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence for the use of San Pedro cactus in northern Peru as a vehicle traveling between worlds imparting “vista” (magical sight) necessary shamanic healers to divine cause their patients' ailments. Using iconographic, ethnohistorical, uninterrupted this sacred plant means access Divine tool healing, it describes relationship Pedro, ancestor worship, water/fertility cults also common symbolic associations...

Christ Returns from the Jungle is an anthropological inquiry into recent expansion South America to Europe of ayahuasca-based Santo Daime New Religious Movement (NRM).In it, author addresses important research questions that could be used as a model for study all globalizing NRM's.These include following: Who are Europeans choose join this movement and why?What most features religion these European daimistas?How does increasing popularity challenge long-held presumption continent undergoing...

This paper tells the story of how undergraduate researchers participating in an applied and participatory anthropological research project at Utah State University have used their experience to help make our campus a more welcoming place for all who orient around religion spirituality differently. The campus‐climate described herein was designed investigate relationship between diverse religious spiritual commitments feelings discomfort or well‐being on campus. Students worked this gained...

In this uniquely personal account of the lives and healing arts female shamans in northern Peru, author alternates diaristic writings about her own experiences with ethnographic description. Her analytical essays explore concepts sorcery, shamanism, witchcraft, case studies Peruvian women their ritual techniques, healers' religious symbolic space, attributes unique to women. They alternate chapters which Glass-Coffin describes introduction Peru as a high school student, traditional roles she...

En este trabajo se presenta información arqueológica sobre representaciones de mujeres curanderas en ceramios Moche halladas el complejo arqueológico Huacas del Sol y la Luna. El oficio es un tema poco estudiado antropología cultural andina, presencia estas época demuestra una continuidad entre pasado prehispánico presente. Sugerimos que recopilada simbología las mesas excelente ayuda para los arqueólogos e historiadores culturas prehispánicas, cuando buscan comprender significados contextos...

This article explores the concepts of altruism, spiritual connection, and shamanic healing as practiced by female curanderas in northern Peru. It suggests how coessence rather than transcendence is at heart journey that both healers patients embark upon order to transform suffering. Using ethnographic case-study research, it describes metaphors maternal care, shared suffering, compassionate love are used this region shape their patients’understandings illness health well construct own...

Abstract For more than 100 years, anthropologists have collected ethnographic research among communities who assert that the spirits, animal allies, and other entities of unseen world are “really real,” yet we historically contextualized this information under umbrella cultural relativism rather taking veracity these claims seriously. In last decade, some claim our discipline has finally undergone an ontological turn, which opens a door for to take nonhuman sentience seriously ontological,...

Liquid Light is an important addition to the growing number of published accounts that discuss use ayahuasca (known by name, Daime), and its role within Santo Daime, a fundamentally Christian though highly syncretic new religious movement founded in 1930 Amazonian state Acre Afro-Brazilian rubber tapper known followers as Mestre Irineu.The text richly descriptive account Barnard's own evolution fardado (Santo Daime initiate) includes first-hand his participation many kinds types worship...

This paper argues that discourse is culturally recognized as powerful and dangerous, significantly informing both the illness experience known daño (magical aggression) its traditional cure in North-coastal Peru. Words are viewed a type of symbolic currency which negotiate "transact" identity an economic, social, psychological environment self-esteem generally scarce commodity tied to opinions others. In case presented, gossip verbal mode perceived threat victim's constructed identity:...

In 1995, Professor Armin Geertz presented a paper at this Congress in which he very succinctly outlined some of the post-modern chal lenges to study religion face contemporary scholars.2 that paper, re-emphasized his call for an ethnohermeneutic approach religion. As I understand it, seeks overcome oppositional poles positivist and herme neudc inquiry by locating making explicit perspectives both researcher subject production presenta tion knowledge. want address how fits into my own...

Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics Ritual Power In an Amazonian Society. Jonathan D. Hill. Tucson: University Arizona Press, 1993. xix. 245 pp., index, bibliography, notes, glossary, figures.