Indigenous and mestizo use of ayahuasca. An overview [in Perú]

Contenido /

- 1. Introduction

- 2. Part I: Indigenous use of ayahuasca [2.1. European perception of sacred plants in the Americas -- 2.2. A question of terminology -- 2.3. Importance of the caapi complex -- 2.4. Indigenous spirituality and shamanism -- 2.5. Types of rituals -- 2.6. Uses of the caapi complex -- 2.7. Contact with the primordial spiritual realm -- 2.8. Transformation and communication with the animal and plant world -- 2.9. Divination, healing and warfare -- 2.10. Acquisition of songs and designs -- 2.11. Promotion of social order]

- . Part II: Mestizo use of ayahuasca [3.1. The use of ayahuasca among the mestizo population of the peruvian

Amazon -- 3.2. Plant teachers -- 3.3. Initiation -- 3.4. Icaros, the magic phlegm and concepts of illness -- 3.5. Spirits]

- 4. A comment on ayahuasca tourism