Amazon’sEncounters with the

VineLuis Eduardo LunaWednesday, March 15th 20176:30 PMRm 304 Cathedral of LearningUniversity of Pittsburgh

Sacred

Professor Luna will offer a talk and book presentation of the second edition of Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine, co-edited with Steven F. White. This anthology is an English language publication that compiles texts from global authorities in ayahuasca studies. Dr. Luna’s talk will be in English.

Luis Eduardo Luna (PhD in Anthropology, 1989, Stockholm Uni-versity, Sweden), is a foremost authority on mestizo shamanism and visionary art. Dr. Luna is a former Senior Lecturer at the Swe-dish School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, from where he reti-red, and a former Professor of Anthropology at the Federal Uni-versity of Santa Catarina, Brazil (1994-1998). He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. At present, Dr. Luna is the director of the Wasiwaska Research Centre for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary and Art Consciousness in Florianópolis, Brazil. Ayahuasca commands the attention of a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology, ethnobotany, phar-macology, therapeutics, sociology, philosophy and the study of re-ligion, to literature and the arts.

John BeverleyDepartment of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

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