B C Labate
Biographic Data
| ID | 71658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B C Labate |
| GIVEN NAMES | B C |
| FAMILY NAME | Labate |
| SIGNATURE | LABATE B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9795-0859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating the mainstreaming of psychedelics
This article critically addresses one of the most pressing questions of the current moment of the psychedelic wave: Is mainstreaming psychedelics a good thing? Our aim is not to provide a simple “yes” or “no” as an answer but to explore the tensions, controversies, disparities, inequalities, and risks that have risen in the last decades. We discuss the limits of psychedelic science as the paradigm leading this movement and the risks of an overemp…
Indigenous psilocybin mushroom practices
This annotated bibliography comprises 49 texts concerning psilocybin mushroom practices developed by Indigenous peoples. The books and articles have been selected for their academic rigor, relevance, and historical significance, and to foreground overlooked research and subject matter. This includes research on a plurality of contemporary practices and evidence of historical uses, from cultural traditions in Mexico and other regions of the world.…
O relatório da DEA sobre os riscos da ayahuasca
Em fevereiro de 2023, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) divulgou um documento para a equipe jurídica que representa a Church of the Eagle and the Condor ("CEC"). Essa divulgação ocorreu dois anos depois que a igreja, em conjunto com o Chacruna Institute, enviou duas solicitações baseadas na lei de liberdade de informação [Freedom Of Information Act] à DEA e ao Departamento de Justiça solicitando todos os registros referentes à ayahuasca. Es…
Entre saberes tradicionais, ciência e proibicionismo
This article analyzes the role of anthropology in legitimizing and regulating the use of ayahuasca, highlighting the relationship between traditional knowledge, science and public policy. Since the mid-20th century, the social sciences have been exploring the cultural and social dimensions of the use of psychoactive substances, including ayahuasca. In Brazil, anthropological production was decisive in recognizing the religious use of the drink as…
Psychedelic Science, Contemplative Practices, and Indigenous and Other Traditional Knowledge Systems
As individuals and communities around the world confront mounting physical, psychological, and social threats, three complimentary mind-body-spirit pathways toward health, wellbeing, and human flourishing remain underappreciated within conventional practice among the biomedical, public health, and policy communities. This paper reviews literature on psychedelic science, contemplative practices, and Indigenous and other traditional knowledge syste…
The DEA report on ayahuasca risks
On February 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released a document to the legal team representing the Church of the Eagle and the Condor ("CEC"). This disclosure came two years after the church, in conjunction with Chacruna Institute, submitted two FOIA requests to the DEA and the Department of Justice requesting all records pertaining to ayahuasca. This report, titled "Ayahuasca: Risks to Public Health and Safety," was issued in Jul…
The impacts of the drug war on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
This paper aims at presenting an overview of the historic and current features concerning the relationship among original peoples, psychoactive drugs, and various forms of anti-drug practices in Latin America. The current expansion of extractivist capitalism in Latin America overlaps with Indigenous peoples' traditional lands, provoking new forms of violence and confrontation. The War on Drugs is being used as a justification to militarize these …
On epistemic injustices, biomedical research with Indigenous people, and the legal regulation of ayahuasca in Brazil
Reflections on crafting an ayahuasca community guide for the awareness of sexual abuse
This article reflects upon the conception and development of a set of guidelines for the awareness of sexual abuse in ayahuasca settings, an assortment of scenarios that take place in local and global settings entailing the use of a psychedelic brew known for producing visionary and purgative effects composed of Amazonian Banisteriopsis caapi (ayahuasca vine) commonly combined with the leaves of Psychotria viridis (chacruna) or Diplopterys cabrer…
Diversity, equity, and access in psychedelic medicine
Although it is exciting to witness the culmination of decades of drug policy advocacy and clinical research, the psychedelic science movement struggles with many of the same social issues that plague healthcare in general. The healing properties of plant medicines and their derivatives were originally brought to Western consciousness by indigenous cultures from all over the world. These practices are now being adapted to Western models of healthc…
Prohibición Y La ”guerra a Las Drogas” en Las Américas
Desde el comienzo del siglo XX hasta los dáas actuales, la prohibición de un conjunto de drogas psicoactivas ha propiciado el surgimiento de la más potente economáa ilácita del mundo, con graves consecuencias poláticas y sociales en América Latina. El texto busca presentar un breve análisis del prohibicionismo en las Américas, para que se pueda comprender el proceso histórico-polático de construcción del tema de las ”drogas” como una cuestió…
The Internationalization of Peruvian Vegetalismo
This chapter charts the expansion, diversification, and internationalization of Peruvian vegetalismo. Outsiders traveling to Peru in search of ayahuasca, gringos who themselves became curanderos, and Peruvian ayahuasqueros who travel to hold workshops for urban middle-class clients abroad are considered. The study identifies contours of transnational networks and the circuits that promote migration and flux of people and “sacred technologies” on …
Medical Drug or Shamanic Power Plant
The secretion from the frog Phyllomedusa bicolor, known in Portuguese as kambô, has traditionally been used as a stimulant and an invigorating agent for hunting by indigenous groups such as the Katukina, Yawanawa, and the Kaxinawa in the southeast Amazon. Since the mid 90s, its use has expanded to large cities in Brazil and, since the late 2000s, abroad to Europe and the US. The urban diffusion of the use of kambô has taken place via healing clin…
The UDV Religion, Science, and Academic Research
Ayahuasca and the process of regulation in Brazil and internationally
Statement on ayahuasca
Ayahuasca Religions in Acre
The Brazilian ayahuasca religions, Santo Daime, Barquinha, and União do Vegetal, have increasingly sought formal recognition by government agencies in Brazil and other countries to guarantee their legal use of ayahuasca, which contains DMT, a substance that is listed. This article focuses on new alliances and rifts that have emerged between and among different ayahuasca groups as they have sought and in some cases achieved formal recognition and …
The expansion of the field of research on ayahuasca
Consumption of Ayahuasca by Children and Pregnant Women
In 2010, the Brazilian Government agency responsible for drug-related issues formulated official Resolutions that categorized the consumption of ayahuasca by pregnant women and children in the Santo Daime and União do Vegetal ayahuasca-based religions as an "exercise of parental rights." Although ayahuasca groups do enjoy a relative degree of social legitimacy and formal legal recognition in Brazil, the participation of pregnant women and childre…
Ayahuasca Mamancuma merci beaucoup
Kidnapped by Thunderbolts - Spiral Translations in Myth, Anthropology and Theater
This year, an indigenous Amazonian myth was adapted for the theater in Brazil by anthropologist Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino.The play, entitled "Raptada pelo Raio" ('Kidnapped by Thunderbolts') was staged by "Cia Livre" ("Free Co.") under the renowned theater director Cibele Forjaz, opening in So Paulo in and running there throughout 2010, and in other cities such as Porto Alegre, Recife and Belo Horizonte.Cesarino, who holds a doctorate in Anthrop…
O processo de regulamentação da ayahuasca no Brasil e na esfera internacional
Este artigo propõe um resumo e uma análise da regulamentação da ayahuasca no Brasil, desde sua pro ibição em meados dos anos 80 até a recente adoção da Resolução de 2 010 do CONAD, que estabeleceu um conjunto de regras, normas e pri ncípios éticos a serem aplicados aos usos religiosos e rituais da ayahuasca. O processo regulatório do Brasil é usado como ponto de pa rtida para explorar o surgimento de temas regulatórios internaciona is à medida qu…
Conference Review
English translation by Glenn H. Shepard Jr. Revision by Matthew Meyer This article reports on the recent “International Congress of Traditional Medicine, Interculturality, and Mental Health” held by the Takiwasi Center in Tarapoto in the Peruvian Amazon. The event united 218 researchers and indigenous and religious representatives from 22 countries to present results of scientific discussions and engage in political and ethical debates surroundin…
As religiões ayahuasqueiras, patrimônio cultural, Acre e fronteiras geográficas
Em abril de 2010, a Assembleia Legislativa do Acre concedeu os títulos de cidadão do Acre a Raimundo Irineu Serra (fundador do Santo Daime), Daniel Pereira de Mattos (fundador da Barquinha) e José Gabriel da Costa (fundador da União do Vegetal) (ALEAC, 2010). Três anos antes, em abril de 2008, essas três vertentes religiosas haviam entrado com um pedido de reconhecimento da ayahuasca como patrimônio cultural imaterial brasileiro junto ao Institut…
Mito, Antropologia e Teatro
O antropologo Pedro Cesarino, doutor pelo Museu Nacional (UFRJ) e professor da Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), fez uma livre recriacao para dramaturgia de uma narrativa mitica cantada, Kana Kawa, do povo Marubo, populacao pano do Vale do Javari, na fronteira com o Peru. A recriacao dramaturgica, Raptada pelo Raio, que parte de uma traducao do original feita tambem por ele, foi encenada pela Companhia Livre, sob direcao da premiada Ci…
Diversity, equity, and access in psychedelic medicine
Although it is exciting to witness the culmination of decades of drug policy advocacy and clinical research, the psychedelic science movement struggles with many of the same social issues that plague healthcare in general. The healing properties of plant medicines and their derivatives were originally brought to Western consciousness by indigenous cultures from all over the world. These practices are now being adapted to Western models of healthc…
Ayahuasca Religions in Acre
The Brazilian ayahuasca religions, Santo Daime, Barquinha, and União do Vegetal, have increasingly sought formal recognition by government agencies in Brazil and other countries to guarantee their legal use of ayahuasca, which contains DMT, a substance that is listed. This article focuses on new alliances and rifts that have emerged between and among different ayahuasca groups as they have sought and in some cases achieved formal recognition and …
Remédio da Ciência' e 'Remédio da Alma
Desde a metade da última década, em grandes cidades do Brasil, começou a se difundir o uso da secreção da rã Phyllomedusa bicolor. Tradicionalmente usada como revigorante e estimulante para caça por grupos indígenas do sudoeste amazônico (entre eles, Katukina, Yawanawá e Kaxinawá), tem havido um duplo interesse pelo kambô nos centros urbanos: como um 'remédio da ciência' - no qual se exaltam suas propriedades bioquímicas - e como um 'remédio da a…
Indigenous psilocybin mushroom practices
This annotated bibliography comprises 49 texts concerning psilocybin mushroom practices developed by Indigenous peoples. The books and articles have been selected for their academic rigor, relevance, and historical significance, and to foreground overlooked research and subject matter. This includes research on a plurality of contemporary practices and evidence of historical uses, from cultural traditions in Mexico and other regions of the world.…
The UDV Religion, Science, and Academic Research
O processo de regulamentação da ayahuasca no Brasil e na esfera internacional
Este artigo propõe um resumo e uma análise da regulamentação da ayahuasca no Brasil, desde sua pro ibição em meados dos anos 80 até a recente adoção da Resolução de 2 010 do CONAD, que estabeleceu um conjunto de regras, normas e pri ncípios éticos a serem aplicados aos usos religiosos e rituais da ayahuasca. O processo regulatório do Brasil é usado como ponto de pa rtida para explorar o surgimento de temas regulatórios internaciona is à medida qu…
Encruzilhadas da imprensa
Recentemente, a Revista Isto É publicou uma reportagem de capa sobre o uso da ayahuasca1 no país, intitulada "As Encruzilhadas do Daime." 2 O texto noticia que o uso da ayahuasca teria sido "liberado pelo governo federal," denotando complacência com um "quadro de desorganização e alto risco," um alarmante "tráfico de ayahuasca" e uma "série de mortes" associadas ao consumo do perigoso "chá alucinógeno." A notícia principal à qual se refere a repo…
Navigating the mainstreaming of psychedelics
This article critically addresses one of the most pressing questions of the current moment of the psychedelic wave: Is mainstreaming psychedelics a good thing? Our aim is not to provide a simple “yes” or “no” as an answer but to explore the tensions, controversies, disparities, inequalities, and risks that have risen in the last decades. We discuss the limits of psychedelic science as the paradigm leading this movement and the risks of an overemp…
On epistemic injustices, biomedical research with Indigenous people, and the legal regulation of ayahuasca in Brazil
Reflections on crafting an ayahuasca community guide for the awareness of sexual abuse
This article reflects upon the conception and development of a set of guidelines for the awareness of sexual abuse in ayahuasca settings, an assortment of scenarios that take place in local and global settings entailing the use of a psychedelic brew known for producing visionary and purgative effects composed of Amazonian Banisteriopsis caapi (ayahuasca vine) commonly combined with the leaves of Psychotria viridis (chacruna) or Diplopterys cabrer…
Medical Drug or Shamanic Power Plant
The secretion from the frog Phyllomedusa bicolor, known in Portuguese as kambô, has traditionally been used as a stimulant and an invigorating agent for hunting by indigenous groups such as the Katukina, Yawanawa, and the Kaxinawa in the southeast Amazon. Since the mid 90s, its use has expanded to large cities in Brazil and, since the late 2000s, abroad to Europe and the US. The urban diffusion of the use of kambô has taken place via healing clin…
As religiões ayahuasqueiras, patrimônio cultural, Acre e fronteiras geográficas
Em abril de 2010, a Assembleia Legislativa do Acre concedeu os títulos de cidadão do Acre a Raimundo Irineu Serra (fundador do Santo Daime), Daniel Pereira de Mattos (fundador da Barquinha) e José Gabriel da Costa (fundador da União do Vegetal) (ALEAC, 2010). Três anos antes, em abril de 2008, essas três vertentes religiosas haviam entrado com um pedido de reconhecimento da ayahuasca como patrimônio cultural imaterial brasileiro junto ao Institut…
Remédio da Ciência' e 'Remédio da Alma
Desde a metade da última década, em grandes cidades do Brasil, começou a se difundir o uso da secreção da rã Phyllomedusa bicolor. Tradicionalmente usada como revigorante e estimulante para caça por grupos indígenas do sudoeste amazônico (entre eles, Katukina, Yawanawá e Kaxinawá), tem havido um duplo interesse pelo kambô nos centros urbanos: como um 'remédio da ciência' - no qual se exaltam suas propriedades bioquímicas - e como um 'remédio da a…
Brazilian Literature on Ayahuasca Religions
The purpose of this text is to provide an overview of Brazilian literature on the principal ayahuasca religions of Brazil: Santo Daime, the Barquinha and the União do Vegetal. To this end, the article offers the most exhaustive survey available of the university theses that have been produced on the subject, published or not; it also deals with various research projects in progress and a few articles which have been chosen for their particular im…
Ayahuasca–From Dangerous Drug to National Heritage
This interview with Antonio A. Arantes, Brazilian anthropology professor and recognized specialist on the topics of intellectual property and traditional knowledge, addresses the 2008 request by Brazilian ayahuasca groups to be recognized as part of the immaterial cultural heritage of Brazil. In the first portion of the interview, Arantes reflects on the challenges of the new conceptions of the Brazilian national immaterial policy program. He dis…
Ayahuasca–From Dangerous Drug to National Heritage
This interview with Antonio A. Arantes, Brazilian anthropology professor and recognized\nspecialist on the topics of intellectual property and traditional knowledge, addresses the 2008\nrequest by Brazilian ayahuasca groups to be recognized as part of the immaterial cultural\nheritage of Brazil. In the first portion of the interview, Arantes reflects on the challenges\nof the new conceptions of the Brazilian national immaterial policy program. He…
Encruzilhadas da imprensa
Recentemente, a Revista Isto É publicou uma reportagem de capa sobre o uso da ayahuasca1 no país, intitulada "As Encruzilhadas do Daime." 2 O texto noticia que o uso da ayahuasca teria sido "liberado pelo governo federal," denotando complacência com um "quadro de desorganização e alto risco," um alarmante "tráfico de ayahuasca" e uma "série de mortes" associadas ao consumo do perigoso "chá alucinógeno." A notícia principal à qual se refere a repo…
Conference Review
English translation by Glenn H. Shepard Jr. Revision by Matthew Meyer This article reports on the recent “International Congress of Traditional Medicine, Interculturality, and Mental Health” held by the Takiwasi Center in Tarapoto in the Peruvian Amazon. The event united 218 researchers and indigenous and religious representatives from 22 countries to present results of scientific discussions and engage in political and ethical debates surroundin…
As religiões ayahuasqueiras, patrimônio cultural, Acre e fronteiras geográficas
Em abril de 2010, a Assembleia Legislativa do Acre concedeu os títulos de cidadão do Acre a Raimundo Irineu Serra (fundador do Santo Daime), Daniel Pereira de Mattos (fundador da Barquinha) e José Gabriel da Costa (fundador da União do Vegetal) (ALEAC, 2010). Três anos antes, em abril de 2008, essas três vertentes religiosas haviam entrado com um pedido de reconhecimento da ayahuasca como patrimônio cultural imaterial brasileiro junto ao Institut…
Mito, Antropologia e Teatro
O antropologo Pedro Cesarino, doutor pelo Museu Nacional (UFRJ) e professor da Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), fez uma livre recriacao para dramaturgia de uma narrativa mitica cantada, Kana Kawa, do povo Marubo, populacao pano do Vale do Javari, na fronteira com o Peru. A recriacao dramaturgica, Raptada pelo Raio, que parte de uma traducao do original feita tambem por ele, foi encenada pela Companhia Livre, sob direcao da premiada Ci…
The expansion of the field of research on ayahuasca
Consumption of Ayahuasca by Children and Pregnant Women
In 2010, the Brazilian Government agency responsible for drug-related issues formulated official Resolutions that categorized the consumption of ayahuasca by pregnant women and children in the Santo Daime and União do Vegetal ayahuasca-based religions as an "exercise of parental rights." Although ayahuasca groups do enjoy a relative degree of social legitimacy and formal legal recognition in Brazil, the participation of pregnant women and childre…
Ayahuasca Mamancuma merci beaucoup
Kidnapped by Thunderbolts - Spiral Translations in Myth, Anthropology and Theater
This year, an indigenous Amazonian myth was adapted for the theater in Brazil by anthropologist Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino.The play, entitled "Raptada pelo Raio" ('Kidnapped by Thunderbolts') was staged by "Cia Livre" ("Free Co.") under the renowned theater director Cibele Forjaz, opening in So Paulo in and running there throughout 2010, and in other cities such as Porto Alegre, Recife and Belo Horizonte.Cesarino, who holds a doctorate in Anthrop…
O processo de regulamentação da ayahuasca no Brasil e na esfera internacional
Este artigo propõe um resumo e uma análise da regulamentação da ayahuasca no Brasil, desde sua pro ibição em meados dos anos 80 até a recente adoção da Resolução de 2 010 do CONAD, que estabeleceu um conjunto de regras, normas e pri ncípios éticos a serem aplicados aos usos religiosos e rituais da ayahuasca. O processo regulatório do Brasil é usado como ponto de pa rtida para explorar o surgimento de temas regulatórios internaciona is à medida qu…
Ayahuasca and the process of regulation in Brazil and internationally
Statement on ayahuasca
Ayahuasca Religions in Acre
The Brazilian ayahuasca religions, Santo Daime, Barquinha, and União do Vegetal, have increasingly sought formal recognition by government agencies in Brazil and other countries to guarantee their legal use of ayahuasca, which contains DMT, a substance that is listed. This article focuses on new alliances and rifts that have emerged between and among different ayahuasca groups as they have sought and in some cases achieved formal recognition and …
The UDV Religion, Science, and Academic Research
The Internationalization of Peruvian Vegetalismo
This chapter charts the expansion, diversification, and internationalization of Peruvian vegetalismo. Outsiders traveling to Peru in search of ayahuasca, gringos who themselves became curanderos, and Peruvian ayahuasqueros who travel to hold workshops for urban middle-class clients abroad are considered. The study identifies contours of transnational networks and the circuits that promote migration and flux of people and “sacred technologies” on …
Medical Drug or Shamanic Power Plant
The secretion from the frog Phyllomedusa bicolor, known in Portuguese as kambô, has traditionally been used as a stimulant and an invigorating agent for hunting by indigenous groups such as the Katukina, Yawanawa, and the Kaxinawa in the southeast Amazon. Since the mid 90s, its use has expanded to large cities in Brazil and, since the late 2000s, abroad to Europe and the US. The urban diffusion of the use of kambô has taken place via healing clin…
Prohibición Y La ”guerra a Las Drogas” en Las Américas
Desde el comienzo del siglo XX hasta los dáas actuales, la prohibición de un conjunto de drogas psicoactivas ha propiciado el surgimiento de la más potente economáa ilácita del mundo, con graves consecuencias poláticas y sociales en América Latina. El texto busca presentar un breve análisis del prohibicionismo en las Américas, para que se pueda comprender el proceso histórico-polático de construcción del tema de las ”drogas” como una cuestió…
Diversity, equity, and access in psychedelic medicine
Although it is exciting to witness the culmination of decades of drug policy advocacy and clinical research, the psychedelic science movement struggles with many of the same social issues that plague healthcare in general. The healing properties of plant medicines and their derivatives were originally brought to Western consciousness by indigenous cultures from all over the world. These practices are now being adapted to Western models of healthc…
Reflections on crafting an ayahuasca community guide for the awareness of sexual abuse
This article reflects upon the conception and development of a set of guidelines for the awareness of sexual abuse in ayahuasca settings, an assortment of scenarios that take place in local and global settings entailing the use of a psychedelic brew known for producing visionary and purgative effects composed of Amazonian Banisteriopsis caapi (ayahuasca vine) commonly combined with the leaves of Psychotria viridis (chacruna) or Diplopterys cabrer…
On epistemic injustices, biomedical research with Indigenous people, and the legal regulation of ayahuasca in Brazil
Psychedelic Science, Contemplative Practices, and Indigenous and Other Traditional Knowledge Systems
As individuals and communities around the world confront mounting physical, psychological, and social threats, three complimentary mind-body-spirit pathways toward health, wellbeing, and human flourishing remain underappreciated within conventional practice among the biomedical, public health, and policy communities. This paper reviews literature on psychedelic science, contemplative practices, and Indigenous and other traditional knowledge syste…
The DEA report on ayahuasca risks
On February 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released a document to the legal team representing the Church of the Eagle and the Condor ("CEC"). This disclosure came two years after the church, in conjunction with Chacruna Institute, submitted two FOIA requests to the DEA and the Department of Justice requesting all records pertaining to ayahuasca. This report, titled "Ayahuasca: Risks to Public Health and Safety," was issued in Jul…
Psychedelics and Drug Studies (25 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Ayahuasca (18 works) · Anthropology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (9 works) · Indigenous (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (6 works)