Abstract

CAICEDO FERNANDEZ, ALHENA. THE RITUAL USE OF YAJE: DEBATES ABOUT PATRIMONIALIZATION AND CONSUMPTION. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2010, vol.46, n.1, pp.63-86. ISSN 0486-6525.

During the last 15 years or so several cities in Colombia such as Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, and Pasto have witnessed the appearance and dissemination of ritual practices associated with the consumption of yajé, a psychotropic, traditionally used by several indigenous groups of the Amazon region. These practices summon people of different social classes, who accede to these spaces, with different purposes, predominantly therapeutic and spiritual. Offered under the label of "indigenous traditional medicine", the ritual consumption of yajé is promoted as a legitimate practice, fruit of a shared cultural inheritance that should be recovered. This article discusses some issues around the question: Is it possible to think of the ritual use of yaje as patrimony?

Keywords : yajé; patrimonialization; indigenous traditional medicine.

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