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#manvirsingh

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Radical Anthropology<p>Really interesting read from <a href="https://c.im/tags/ManvirSingh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManvirSingh</span></a> gathering evidence that <a href="https://c.im/tags/ayahuasca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ayahuasca</span></a> is not as old or <a href="https://c.im/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> as it is made out to be. The tales tourists want to hear...</p><p>'Brabec de Mori argues that ayahuasca diffused through the Peruvian Amazon in the past 300 years. It is likely older among Tukanoan peoples further north, who, he suspects, transmitted the practice to populations missionised early in the lowlands. Yet in the regions most frequented by tourists, it seems to be a relative novelty. Brabec de Mori isn’t the first to make the argument – the anthropologist Peter Gow proposed something similar in 1994 – but he, more than anyone else, has found the anthropological data to support it.'</p><p>We definitely believe Peter Gow (who saw the equivalency of menstrual girls to shamans. Ayahuasca use tends to push women out)</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/psychedelics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychedelics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/myth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>myth</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/01/the-ancient-psychedelics-myth-people-tell-tourists-the-stories-they-think-are-interesting-for-them" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/01/the-ancient-psychedelics-myth-people-tell-tourists-the-stories-they-think-are-interesting-for-them</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Nice essay by <a href="https://c.im/tags/ManvirSingh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManvirSingh</span></a> on how <a href="https://c.im/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> shapes <a href="https://c.im/tags/thought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thought</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Whorf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whorf</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/how-much-does-our-language-shape-our-thinking" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12</span><span class="invisible">/30/how-much-does-our-language-shape-our-thinking</span></a></p>
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