Three Mazatec Wise Ones and their Books
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2361679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Feinberg (Department of Social Sciences, Warren Wilson College, North Carolina, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 411-437 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308275x9701700407 |
| OpenAlex | W4252880812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
■ Most accounts of psychedelic mushroom use in Mexico's Sierra Maza teca describe the practice as a prehispanic survival degraded by tourism. This article explores how - through chants, self-descriptions and life stories - Mazatec curers who deal with 'outsiders' use the discourse surrounding mushrooms to construct a mimetic model of power and the relationship between inside and outside that highlights the importance of the border and the position of the mediator. The themes of shamanic travel and the book make both sense and power out of magical mushroom mediation and involve the outsider as an essential component of Mazatec identity
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Construct (python library · Identity (music · Mediation · Mushroom · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropology · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2015 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |