Ayahuasca and religious and cultural experiences between Amazon forest indigenous people and Nawas in cities

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to analyze the discourses of partners, participants in rituals, and tourists visiting the Gregory River indigenous land, at Acre State (Brazil), about the concepts of spiritual and cultural experience around the ayahuasca drink offered by the yawanawá people in ceremonies urban areas and the tourist activity of the Yawarani village. Based on ethnographic research carried out between 2016 and 2020 with the yawanawá indigenous people and interviews with social actors who interact directly with the indigenous people, we sought to outline dimensions of the exchange of meanings between ayahuasca indigenous peoples in the Amazon Forest, ayahuasca religions, umbandistas and adherents of the New Age in the construction of a sociability common to these actors.