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Tag: Indigenous Knowledge

What does an analysis of ayahuasca DNA tell us?

Geneticists Try to Unveil the Mystery of the Ayahuasca Vine

Analysis of ayahuasca DNA by geneticists confirms lineages known to traditional users that might be...
Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas End of Year Report 2022

Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas (IRI) End of Year Report (January – December 2022)

Chacruna launched the Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas (IRI) in April 2021 as a...

Controversy Over Injustice Against Ayahuasca Traditional Knowledge Rebounds

This article explores a paper written by Eduardo Ekman Schenberg and Konstantin Gerber titled Overcoming...

Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon: Tobacco and the hummingbird shamans of Peru

In this feature, Glenn H. Shepard Jr. provides a colorful, detailed account of his experience...

Treasures of the Forest: Jarawara Women and Plants They Carry

The care taken with the tobacco plants by Jarawara women is impressive, and it extends...

Educating Gringos in Shipibo Ways

In this personal account, Reilly Capps recounts his experience doing Ayahuasca and the way he...
Wilma Mahua Campos has been learning the skills of ayahuasca healing since she was a young girl.

Wilma Mahua Campos, Shipibo Ayahuasquera

Since a young age, Wilma Mahua Campos has been dedicated to learning about her Shipibo...
Nancy Turner

Nancy Turner and the Work of Preserving Plant Knowledge

For decades, Nancy Turner has carefully demonstrated the many cultural and environmental benefits of investing...

Preserving Entangled Ayahuasca

This text was originally a conference paper in Spanish as well as an attempt to...
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