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Ligia Duque Platero, Ph.D.

Lígia Duque Platero has a PhD in Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro. She researches shamanisms and ayahuasca religions. She is Chacruna’s Education Program Associate.

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forest medicines, santo daime, and the yawanawa

Forest Medicines and Global Alliances Between the Yawanawá People and Santo Daime

Contemporary networks in Brazil have expanded, connecting Indigenous groups like the Yawanawá with non-Indigenous social...

A Homosexual Marriage Experience in Santo Daime

Five years ago, we got married in Rio de Janeiro in a religious ritual of...

The Muká Diet of the Yawanawá Indigenous People in Acre, Brazil

If, in the recent past, the diet was exclusively for men of this ethnic group,...

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