Content
List of
Figures XIII
Acknowledgements
XV
Introduction 1
Shamanism
and its overtlows 6
Sorne
methodological considerations 7
Contexts 15
The
shamanic networks of the north-western Amazon 15
Shaman
and curandero networks 18
Shamanic
power: Learning and acquiring power 25
The
auca and the power of difference 32
The
Indian as Other: Representations of Otherness 37
"The path of the Indians": A neoyagecero
initiation 51
"Building
bridges": Javier Lasso 52
"Weaving
alliances": Kajuyali Tsamani 56
"Think
beautiful": Orlando Gaitán 59
"Sumrnoning
the bloodline": Florentino Ágreda 62
New
taita yageceros 65
Initiation
and legitimation of the new taita yageceros 67
The
language of yage 72
The
language of the yagecero 79
Neoshamanisms
in action 84
Yagé sessions 87
The
malocas 88
The
neoyageceros 90
Preparations 92
The
ritual prescriptions 94
"Health
and good pintas": A ritual device of yagé sessions 102
Ritual
adaptations 115
Malocas and the path of yagé 119
Contamination
and purification 119
The
path of yage 125
Communities:
Orders and hierarchies 127
The
altar at Cruz del Sur 139
The
altar at El Sol Naciente (Carare community) 140
Ritual
gatherings 141
Authenticity and shamanic power 147
Reinventing
tradition: Taita Pacho Piaguaje 151
The
power of the city 159
Medicalisation
of yagé sessions 165
Heritagisation
of ritual yagé consumption 169
Yageceros
and Indían authenticity 175
From shamanism as a cure and the Indian as a remedy 179
Who are
the urban yageceros? 179
The
radical otherness that heals 182
The
healing 182
The
sacred 190
Indianness 197
The New
Age 203
Brujería
as the reverse side 208
The new horizons of yagecero shamanism in Colombia 217
Bibliography 225