Ayahuasca healing beyond the Amazon: The globalization of a traditional indigenous entheogenic practice

Global Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-136

  Tupper, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ayahuasca; Biopiracy; Cultural appropriation; Entheogen; Globalization; Intellectual property; Traditional indigenous knowledge; Vegetalismo

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

AYAHUASCA; BIOPIRACY; CULTURAL APPROPRIATION; ENTHEOGEN; GLOBALIZATION; TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; VEGETALISMO;

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

CULTURAL TRADITION; GLOBALIZATION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; RELIGION; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BANISTERIOPSIS CAAPI;

EID: 57549091225     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: 14710374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2009.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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