R Rodd
Biographic Data
| ID | 41722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Rodd |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodd |
| SIGNATURE | RODD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7552-7160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Traditional Amazonian medicine in addiction treatment: Qualitative results
Traditional Amazonian medicine, and in particular the psychoactive substance ayahuasca, has generated significant research interest along with the recent revival of psychedelic medicine. Previously we published within-treatment quantitative results from a residential addiction treatment centre that predominately employs Peruvian traditional Amazonian medicine, and here we follow up that work with a qualitative study of within-treatment patient ex…
Culinary art, political theater, and Covid-19 policy: An ethnographic study of a live poultry stall in Wuxi
Emblematic of the ubiquitous wet markets in China, the live-poultry trade has far-reaching influences on Chinese people's diet, culinary art, social interactions, and cultural identities. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the live-poultry trade has also borne the brunt of this public health crisis due to its notorious history of spreading avian flu and its association with the spread of coronavirus. There have been serious consequences-successiv…
Dossier Introduction: Museums, Art, and the Politics of Memory in Latin America
The Banality of Evil, Nunca Más and the Implicated Subject in Argentine Memory Spaces
The ambiguous relations and subjectivities associated with the banality of evil are peripheral to a dominant human rights discourse oriented around the binary logics of perpetrators and victims and dictatorship and democracy. The absence of non-binary subjectivities reflects a conceptual gap relating to questions of shared responsibility posed by Hannah Arendt more than half a century ago. Despite its ongoing relevance for reflecting on the produ…
Democracy Without Citizens: Australian Citizen Agency and the Symbolic Significance of Not Having Rights
Democratic Citizenship as Uruguayan Cultural Heritage
Amidst a global turn towards authoritarianism and populism, there are few contemporary examples of state-led democratization. This article discusses how Uruguay's Frente Amplio (FA) party has drawn on a unique national democratic cultural heritage to encourage a coupling of participatory and representative institutions in “a politics of closeness.” The FA has reinvigorated Batllismo, a discourse associated with social justice, civic republicanism…
The 'I' and the 'we' of citizenship in the age of waning democracy: Wolin and Balibar on citizenship, the political and dedemocratization
Despite drawing on different historical traditions and philosophical sources, Sheldon Wolin and Étienne Balibar have come to see citizenship and democracy in fundamentally similar ways. However, the work of one has not been considered alongside that of the other. In this paper, I examine some of their key texts and draw out three areas of common concern: the historical specificity of the political, citizenship as a dialectical process and dedemoc…
Piaroa Shamanic Ethics and Ethos: Living by the Law and the Good Life of Tranquillity
It's all you! Australian ayahuasca drinking, spiritual development, and immunitary individualism
Ayahuasca, a psychoactive plant decoction, has spread from indigenous communities in South America to urban areas in the Americas, Europe, and Australia where it is used in neoshamanic rituals. This paper draws on ethnography of Australian ayahuasca ceremonies to examine the ways that individualism shapes the structure of ayahuasca rituals, the interpretation of visionary experiences, and notions of spiritual development. I show how the metaphors…
Yopo, Ethnicity and Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva Yopo Use
Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses of yopo in light of ongoing processes of social change. We do not believe that these sociocultural forces will lead to a phasing out of yopo in Piaroa and Cuiva life. However, we demonstrate how, in nearby communities, a combin…
Reassessing the Cultural and Psychopharmacological Significance of Banisteriopsis caapi: Preparation, Classification and Use Among the Piaroa of Southern Venezuela
Recent attention to the monoamine oxidase inhibiting properties of Banisteriopsis caapi's harmala alkaloids has precluded a balanced assessment of B. caapi's overall significance to indigenous South American societies. Relatively little attention has been paid to the cultural contexts, local meanings and patterns of use of B. caapi among snuff-using societies, such as the Piaroa, who do not prepare decoctions containing N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DM…
Piaroa Sorcery and the Navigation of Negative Affect: To Be Aware, To Turn Away
An overemphasis on the interpretation of language has impeded understanding of the cultural and cognitive logic of sorcery's focal acts: divination and sorcery battle. Among the Piaroa of southern Venezuela, divination and sorcery battle are conducted during hallucinogen-induced visions, and are predicated on an epistemology that privileges forms of knowing that are neither linguistic nor language-like. I suggest that Piaroa sorcerers use halluci…
Märipa: To Know Everything The Experience of Power as Knowledge Derived from the Integrative Mode of Consciousness
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge derived from visionary experiences. Märipa is an epistemology concerning the translation of knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness, induced primarily through the consumption of plant hallucinogens, to practical effect during waking life. I integrate mythological, neurobiological, experiential, and ethnographic data to demonstrate …
Snuff Synergy: Preparation, Use and Pharmacology ofYopoandBanisteriopsis CaapiAmong the Piaroa of Southern Venezuela
Current understanding of the preparation and use of yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff made from the ground seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree, has departed little from the accounts of scientists and travelers made over a century ago. Schultes and others have made refinements to these early accounts. While several scholars have drawn attention to the fact that little ethnographic work has been conducted to assess the ethnobotanical diversity and…
To Lesbia
Snuff Synergy: Preparation, Use and Pharmacology ofYopoandBanisteriopsis CaapiAmong the Piaroa of Southern Venezuela
Current understanding of the preparation and use of yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff made from the ground seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree, has departed little from the accounts of scientists and travelers made over a century ago. Schultes and others have made refinements to these early accounts. While several scholars have drawn attention to the fact that little ethnographic work has been conducted to assess the ethnobotanical diversity and…
It's all you! Australian ayahuasca drinking, spiritual development, and immunitary individualism
Ayahuasca, a psychoactive plant decoction, has spread from indigenous communities in South America to urban areas in the Americas, Europe, and Australia where it is used in neoshamanic rituals. This paper draws on ethnography of Australian ayahuasca ceremonies to examine the ways that individualism shapes the structure of ayahuasca rituals, the interpretation of visionary experiences, and notions of spiritual development. I show how the metaphors…
Märipa: To Know Everything The Experience of Power as Knowledge Derived from the Integrative Mode of Consciousness
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge derived from visionary experiences. Märipa is an epistemology concerning the translation of knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness, induced primarily through the consumption of plant hallucinogens, to practical effect during waking life. I integrate mythological, neurobiological, experiential, and ethnographic data to demonstrate …
Piaroa Sorcery and the Navigation of Negative Affect: To Be Aware, To Turn Away
An overemphasis on the interpretation of language has impeded understanding of the cultural and cognitive logic of sorcery's focal acts: divination and sorcery battle. Among the Piaroa of southern Venezuela, divination and sorcery battle are conducted during hallucinogen-induced visions, and are predicated on an epistemology that privileges forms of knowing that are neither linguistic nor language-like. I suggest that Piaroa sorcerers use halluci…
The 'I' and the 'we' of citizenship in the age of waning democracy: Wolin and Balibar on citizenship, the political and dedemocratization
Despite drawing on different historical traditions and philosophical sources, Sheldon Wolin and Étienne Balibar have come to see citizenship and democracy in fundamentally similar ways. However, the work of one has not been considered alongside that of the other. In this paper, I examine some of their key texts and draw out three areas of common concern: the historical specificity of the political, citizenship as a dialectical process and dedemoc…
Piaroa Shamanic Ethics and Ethos: Living by the Law and the Good Life of Tranquillity
Dossier Introduction: Museums, Art, and the Politics of Memory in Latin America
To Lesbia
Snuff Synergy: Preparation, Use and Pharmacology ofYopoandBanisteriopsis CaapiAmong the Piaroa of Southern Venezuela
Current understanding of the preparation and use of yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff made from the ground seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree, has departed little from the accounts of scientists and travelers made over a century ago. Schultes and others have made refinements to these early accounts. While several scholars have drawn attention to the fact that little ethnographic work has been conducted to assess the ethnobotanical diversity and…
Märipa: To Know Everything The Experience of Power as Knowledge Derived from the Integrative Mode of Consciousness
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge derived from visionary experiences. Märipa is an epistemology concerning the translation of knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness, induced primarily through the consumption of plant hallucinogens, to practical effect during waking life. I integrate mythological, neurobiological, experiential, and ethnographic data to demonstrate …
Piaroa Sorcery and the Navigation of Negative Affect: To Be Aware, To Turn Away
An overemphasis on the interpretation of language has impeded understanding of the cultural and cognitive logic of sorcery's focal acts: divination and sorcery battle. Among the Piaroa of southern Venezuela, divination and sorcery battle are conducted during hallucinogen-induced visions, and are predicated on an epistemology that privileges forms of knowing that are neither linguistic nor language-like. I suggest that Piaroa sorcerers use halluci…
Reassessing the Cultural and Psychopharmacological Significance of Banisteriopsis caapi: Preparation, Classification and Use Among the Piaroa of Southern Venezuela
Recent attention to the monoamine oxidase inhibiting properties of Banisteriopsis caapi's harmala alkaloids has precluded a balanced assessment of B. caapi's overall significance to indigenous South American societies. Relatively little attention has been paid to the cultural contexts, local meanings and patterns of use of B. caapi among snuff-using societies, such as the Piaroa, who do not prepare decoctions containing N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DM…
Yopo, Ethnicity and Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva Yopo Use
Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses of yopo in light of ongoing processes of social change. We do not believe that these sociocultural forces will lead to a phasing out of yopo in Piaroa and Cuiva life. However, we demonstrate how, in nearby communities, a combin…
The 'I' and the 'we' of citizenship in the age of waning democracy: Wolin and Balibar on citizenship, the political and dedemocratization
Despite drawing on different historical traditions and philosophical sources, Sheldon Wolin and Étienne Balibar have come to see citizenship and democracy in fundamentally similar ways. However, the work of one has not been considered alongside that of the other. In this paper, I examine some of their key texts and draw out three areas of common concern: the historical specificity of the political, citizenship as a dialectical process and dedemoc…
Piaroa Shamanic Ethics and Ethos: Living by the Law and the Good Life of Tranquillity
It's all you! Australian ayahuasca drinking, spiritual development, and immunitary individualism
Ayahuasca, a psychoactive plant decoction, has spread from indigenous communities in South America to urban areas in the Americas, Europe, and Australia where it is used in neoshamanic rituals. This paper draws on ethnography of Australian ayahuasca ceremonies to examine the ways that individualism shapes the structure of ayahuasca rituals, the interpretation of visionary experiences, and notions of spiritual development. I show how the metaphors…
Democratic Citizenship as Uruguayan Cultural Heritage
Amidst a global turn towards authoritarianism and populism, there are few contemporary examples of state-led democratization. This article discusses how Uruguay's Frente Amplio (FA) party has drawn on a unique national democratic cultural heritage to encourage a coupling of participatory and representative institutions in “a politics of closeness.” The FA has reinvigorated Batllismo, a discourse associated with social justice, civic republicanism…
Democracy Without Citizens: Australian Citizen Agency and the Symbolic Significance of Not Having Rights
Dossier Introduction: Museums, Art, and the Politics of Memory in Latin America
The Banality of Evil, Nunca Más and the Implicated Subject in Argentine Memory Spaces
The ambiguous relations and subjectivities associated with the banality of evil are peripheral to a dominant human rights discourse oriented around the binary logics of perpetrators and victims and dictatorship and democracy. The absence of non-binary subjectivities reflects a conceptual gap relating to questions of shared responsibility posed by Hannah Arendt more than half a century ago. Despite its ongoing relevance for reflecting on the produ…
Traditional Amazonian medicine in addiction treatment: Qualitative results
Traditional Amazonian medicine, and in particular the psychoactive substance ayahuasca, has generated significant research interest along with the recent revival of psychedelic medicine. Previously we published within-treatment quantitative results from a residential addiction treatment centre that predominately employs Peruvian traditional Amazonian medicine, and here we follow up that work with a qualitative study of within-treatment patient ex…
Culinary art, political theater, and Covid-19 policy: An ethnographic study of a live poultry stall in Wuxi
Emblematic of the ubiquitous wet markets in China, the live-poultry trade has far-reaching influences on Chinese people's diet, culinary art, social interactions, and cultural identities. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the live-poultry trade has also borne the brunt of this public health crisis due to its notorious history of spreading avian flu and its association with the spread of coronavirus. There have been serious consequences-successiv…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Shamanism (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)