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The following book is concerned with the complex phenomenon of contemporary ayahuasca practice in Peru. It focusses on expectations, experiences, meaning and subjective effects of persons participating in cross-cultural ayahuasca tourism. The purpose is not an evaluation of traditional ayahuasca therapy but a psychological, explorative, hypotheses-generating investigation as well as documentation of psychological aspects of contemporary ayahuasca-tourism in the Upper Amazon.
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Wolff, T.J. (2020). Introduction. In: The Touristic Use of Ayahuasca in Peru. Sozialwissenschaftliche Gesundheitsforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29373-4_1
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