Ayahuasca: Beween Cognition and Culture: Perspectives from an interdisciplinary and reflexive ethnography

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Preface: Psychedelia, rationality and experience:  An anthropological perspective
Introduction
Section I. Ethnography in Latin America
	Chapter 1. The fieldwork before the fieldwork
		Ayahuasca, vegetalismo, neoshamanism and New Age networks
		A mystical experience triggers a research project
	Chapter 2. An ethnography from Uruguay  to the Amazon rainforest
		An interdisciplinary research project: between culture and cognition
		A multi-technical ethnography: using both qualitative  and quantitative methods
		The ayahuasca experiences: spirits and reflections
		The cultivation of mental imagery: ayahuasca as a cognitive tool
		A multi-situated ethnography: transnational networks of spirituality
		A reflexive anthropology
	Chapter 3: Anthropology, shamanism  and neoshamanism
		Enlightenment vs Romanticism
		The vilified shaman turns into a psychotherapist
		Psychedelics and ASCs
		Anthropologists going native
		Neo-shamanism in the psycho-spiritual networks
		The ontological turn
		Spiritual ontologies: cognition and ASCs
Section II. Ethnography in Catalonia
	Chapter 4. Ayahuasca and medical systems  in Catalonia
		Arrival in Catalonia
		Health care through the lenses of medical anthropology
		Medicine, religion and ayahuasca
		Medical pluralism and ayahuasca in Catalonia
		Medicine or religion?
	Chapter 5. Science, spirituality and ayahuasca
		The demarcation problem
		Consciousness as the heart of the matter
		From an intentional onion to a mechanical universe
		Spirits and teleonomies in modern science
		The case of psychedelic studies. A pharmacology of spirituality?
		Ayahuasca experiences and the founders of two centers
		The cultural transmission of science and religion
	Chapter 6. Ritual healing  from a multi-level perspective
		Opening the black box of placebo
		Medical anthropology and ritual healing
		Ritual in cognitive science of religion
		Conversion and experience
		Ritual, cognition and culture. A final synthesis
		Psychedelics, rituals and healing
	Chapter 7. Ayahuasca healing  and addictions in Catalonia
		Addiction in its context
		Ayahuasca and addictions
		Methodological considerations and qualitative research
		Description of the cases
		Ayahuasca’s spiritual experiences in the 12 cases studied
		The spirit of the plant as a superhuman agent
		Experience, narrative and conversion
	Chapter 8. Four biographical narratives  of recovery from addiction from IDEAA
		Case 1. Body and mind
		Case 2. Lies and jaguars
		Case 3. Fights and troubles
		Case 4. Death and God
		Final conclusions
	Chapter 9. Two conversions in Catalonia
		Case 1. Death and rebirth
		Case 2. Masks and intrusive thoughts
		Final conclusions
General conclusions
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