Pre-Hispanic ritual use of psychoactive plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2425125122
Abstract: Significance Ritual activity is commonly argued to have played an important role in the development of complex sociopolitical formations worldwide. In the Central Andes, where ritual apparently contributed to both social integration and political maneuvering,… read more here.
Keywords: use psychoactive; chav ntar; psychoactive plants; peru ... See more keywords
Surplus, Mobility, and Resistance: The Literary Forms of Psychoactive Plants
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DOI: 10.1353/sdn.2025.a952388
Abstract: Abstract:This article revises the existing Marxist accounts of plantation capitalism by exploring how literary forms of nineteenth-century psychoactive plants (i.e., plants that are used to make alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, opium, etc.) could conversely contain agency… read more here.
Keywords: resistance; mobility resistance; surplus mobility; psychoactive plants ... See more keywords