The devil's book of culture : history, mushrooms, and caves in southern Mexico

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    • Feinberg, Benjamin

書誌事項

The devil's book of culture : history, mushrooms, and caves in southern Mexico

Benjamin Feinberg

University of Texas Press, 2003

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-265) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780292701908

内容説明

Since the 1950s, the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, has drawn a strange assortment of visitors and pilgrims-schoolteachers and government workers, North American and European spelunkers exploring the region's vast cave system, and counterculturalists from hippies (John Lennon and other celebrities supposedly among them) to New Age seekers, all chasing a firsthand experience of transcendence and otherness through the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms "in context" with a Mazatec shaman. Over time, this steady incursion of the outside world has significantly influenced the Mazatec sense of identity, giving rise to an ongoing discourse about what it means to be "us" and "them." In this highly original ethnography, Benjamin Feinberg investigates how different understandings of Mazatec identity and culture emerge through talk that circulates within and among various groups, including Mazatec-speaking businessmen, curers, peasants, intellectuals, anthropologists, bureaucrats, cavers, and mushroom-seeking tourists. Specifically, he traces how these groups express their sense of culture and identity through narratives about three nearby yet strange discursive "worlds"-the "magic world" of psychedelic mushrooms and shamanic practices, the underground world of caves and its associated folklore of supernatural beings and magical wealth, and the world of the past or the past/present relationship. Feinberg's research refutes the notion of a static Mazatec identity now changed by contact with the outside world, showing instead that identity forms at the intersection of multiple transnational discourses.

目次

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: A Toyota in Huautla 2. Historical and Geographical Overview: The Master Narrative of the Past 3. From Indians to Hillbillies: Explicit Stories about the Mazatec Past 4. "Like Rock, but Mazatec": Fiestas in Huautla 5. The Secret Past 6. "?Quiere Hierba? ?Quiere Hongo?" Mushrooms, Culture, Experts, and Drugs 7. The Underground World 8. Conclusion: The Devil's Book Notes Bibliography
巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780292705500

内容説明

Since the 1950s, the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, has drawn a strange assortment of visitors and pilgrims - schoolteachers and government workers, North American and European spelunkers exploring the regionaEURO(t)s vast cave system, and counterculturalists from hippies (John Lennon and other celebrities supposedly among them) to New Age seekers, all chasing a firsthand experience of transcendence and otherness through the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms aEUROoein contextaEURO with a Mazatec shaman. Over time, this steady incursion of the outside world has significantly influenced the Mazatec sense of identity, giving rise to an ongoing discourse about what it means to be aEUROoeusaEURO and aEUROoethem.aEURO In this highly original ethnography, Benjamin Feinberg investigates how different understandings of Mazatec identity and culture emerge through talk that circulates within and among various groups, including Mazatec-speaking businessmen, curers, peasants, intellectuals, anthropologists, bureaucrats, cavers, and mushroom-seeking tourists. Specifically, he traces how these groups express their sense of culture and identity through narratives about three nearby yet strange discursive aEUROoeworldsaEURO - the aEUROoemagic worldaEURO of psychedelic mushrooms and shamanic practices, the underground world of caves and its associated folklore of supernatural beings and magical wealth, and the world of the past or the past/present relationship. FeinbergaEURO(t)s research refutes the notion of a static Mazatec identity now changed by contact with the outside world, showing instead that identity forms at the intersection of multiple transnational discourses.

目次

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments1. Introduction: A Toyota in Huautla
  • 2. Historical and Geographical Overview: The Master Narrative of the Past
  • 3. From Indians to Hillbillies: Explicit Stories about the Mazatec Past
  • 4. "Like Rock, but Mazatec": Fiestas in Huautla
  • 5. The Secret Past
  • 6. " Quiere Hierba? Quiere Hongo?" Mushrooms, Culture, Experts, and Drugs
  • 7. The Underground World
  • 8. Conclusion: The Devil's Book

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