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Article: 'Whatever you want to believe': Kaleidoscopic individualism and ayahuasca healing in Australia

Title'Whatever you want to believe': Kaleidoscopic individualism and ayahuasca healing in Australia
Authors
KeywordsIndividualism
Morality
Sensory
Ayahuasca
Healing
Issue Date2015
Citation
Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2015, v. 26, n. 3, p. 442-455 How to Cite?
AbstractOver the last fifteen years the use of the indigenous Amazonian psychoactive beverage ayahuasca has been reimagined in alternative healing circles of Western countries. This paper explores the practice of ayahuasca neoshamanism in Australia and examines ways in which acts of vomiting and ecstatic trance-visions involve heightened affective states and moral projects of healing. Aspects of everyday life are purged, rearticulated, and reconstituted in rituals where codes of conduct and discursive exchange encourage practices of personal evaluation and reflexivity that appear to index ideologies of individualism. Through exploring social and discursive prohibitions and forms of sensory organisation, the practice of drinking ayahuasca in Australia is shown to be constituted by ritual conventions that define the individual as autonomous and responsible in relation to ecstatic trance and articulations of wellbeing.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/307569
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dc.contributor.authorGearin, Alex K.-
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-12T02:53:05Z-
dc.date.available2021-11-12T02:53:05Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationAustralian Journal of Anthropology, 2015, v. 26, n. 3, p. 442-455-
dc.identifier.issn1035-8811-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/307569-
dc.description.abstractOver the last fifteen years the use of the indigenous Amazonian psychoactive beverage ayahuasca has been reimagined in alternative healing circles of Western countries. This paper explores the practice of ayahuasca neoshamanism in Australia and examines ways in which acts of vomiting and ecstatic trance-visions involve heightened affective states and moral projects of healing. Aspects of everyday life are purged, rearticulated, and reconstituted in rituals where codes of conduct and discursive exchange encourage practices of personal evaluation and reflexivity that appear to index ideologies of individualism. Through exploring social and discursive prohibitions and forms of sensory organisation, the practice of drinking ayahuasca in Australia is shown to be constituted by ritual conventions that define the individual as autonomous and responsible in relation to ecstatic trance and articulations of wellbeing.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofAustralian Journal of Anthropology-
dc.subjectIndividualism-
dc.subjectMorality-
dc.subjectSensory-
dc.subjectAyahuasca-
dc.subjectHealing-
dc.title'Whatever you want to believe': Kaleidoscopic individualism and ayahuasca healing in Australia-
dc.typeArticle-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/taja.12143-
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dc.identifier.volume26-
dc.identifier.issue3-
dc.identifier.spage442-
dc.identifier.epage455-
dc.identifier.eissn1757-6547-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000365754200009-

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