Resumen

APUD, Ismael. The phantasmatic indian is recruited in the city: Neoshamanism, its origins and its arrival in Uruguay. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2013, n.38, pp.57-83. ISSN 1850-275X.

In this paper we will analyze in first place how neoshamanic practices arise. We will see how the academic formulation of shamanic phenomena affects the emergency of neo-shamanism, and how their historical emergence is related to the counter-cultural movements of the sixties, and later with other movements related to New Age and Posmodernity. Last we will address the phenomenon in Uruguay, giving a short description of one of the groups identified the center of alternative therapies Ayariri, related to the Amazon vegetalista tradition.

Palabras clave : Shamanism; Neoshamanism; Uruguay; Religion; Spirituality.

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