Psychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas: History, Traditions, and Indigenous Voices - Softcover

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Dr. Bia Labate, cofounder and executive director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, is an anthropologist, educator, author, speaker, and activist, committed to the protection of sacred plants while amplifying the voices of marginalized communities in the psychedelic science field. She has a PhD in anthropology, and her main areas of interest are the study of psychoactive substances, drug policies, shamanism, ritual, and religion. She is author, coauthor and coeditor of twenty-nine books, one journal special edition and several peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Henrique Fernandes Antunes holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of São Paulo (2019), has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, and has held postdoctoral positions at EHESS, the University of Ottawa, and CEBRAP. Currently, he is research director at the Chacruna Institute, a member of CEBRAP’s Religion in the Contemporary World Group, and is affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP). His research examines the regulation and global circulation of ayahuasca

Nidia A. Olvera Hernández is a Mexican historian and anthropologist. She has a PhD in modern and contemporary history from the Mora Institute in Mexico City. Nidia earned a bachelor’s degree in ethnohistory from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and a master’s in social anthropology from the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. Her primary research interests lie in the historical and contemporary dimensions of psychoactive substance use and drug policy. She collaborates as a research associate at Chacruna Latinoamérica in México and contributes to the Journal of Social History of Alcohol and Drugs as associate review editor and is a research fellow at the Consortium for the History of Science. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher on the project “Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion? Shifting Perspectives on Drugs in Latin America” at Radboud University, Netherlands.

Clancy Cavnar, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in San Francisco, cofounder of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, and a research associate with NEIP. She holds an MFA in painting, a master’s in counseling, and completed the Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy at CIIS. Dr. Cavnar has authored and coedited several books and articles on psychedelic science and therapy.