The paper discusses the phenomenon known as "ayahuasca fever", that yearly involves thousands of westeners leaving their homes for peruvian Amazonia in search of the " the vine of gods". Its start point is a text from renowned French anthropologist Jean-Lup Amselle, who denounces it as a just another way for binding people to an edonistic and introverted capitalism. However, according to our field analysis of the phenomenon, there seems to be much more than that: the "ayahuasca fever" testifies of a general crisis within our Western worldview that can be tackled with the instruments of ethnopsychiatry.
Tristi gli psico-tropici? A proposito di Jean-Loup Amselle e della “febbre dell’ayahuasca” nella foresta amazzonica.
CONSIGLIERE, STEFANIA;
2014-01-01
Abstract
The paper discusses the phenomenon known as "ayahuasca fever", that yearly involves thousands of westeners leaving their homes for peruvian Amazonia in search of the " the vine of gods". Its start point is a text from renowned French anthropologist Jean-Lup Amselle, who denounces it as a just another way for binding people to an edonistic and introverted capitalism. However, according to our field analysis of the phenomenon, there seems to be much more than that: the "ayahuasca fever" testifies of a general crisis within our Western worldview that can be tackled with the instruments of ethnopsychiatry.
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