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Dr Alex Gearin

Honorary Research Fellow
School of Social Science
+61 7 336 53236
a.gearin@uq.edu.au

Publications

Book Chapters (3)
Journal Articles (7)
Thesis (1)

Book Chapters

Gearin, Alex K. and Labate, Beatriz Caiuby (2018). “La dieta”: Ayahuasca and the western reinvention of indigenous Amazonian food shamanism. The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Appropriation, Integration and Legislation. (pp. 177-197) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315227955
Gearin, Alex K. (2017). Good Mother Nature: ayahuasca neoshamanism as cultural critique in Australia. The world ayahuasca diaspora: reinventions and controversies. (pp. 123-141) edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar and Alex K. Gearin. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315551425-13
Labate, Beatriz Caiuby, Cavnar, Clancy and Gearin, Alex K. (2016). Introduction: The shifting journey of ayahuasca in diaspora. The World Ayahuasca Diaspora Reinventions and Controversies. (pp. 1-16) London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Journal Articles

Gearin, Alex K. (2022). Primitivist medicine and capitalist anxieties in ayahuasca tourism Peru. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28 (2), 496-515. doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.13705
Gearin, Alex K., Luna, Luis E., Mendive, Fernando, Leonti, Marco, Ferrante, Claudio, Menghini, Luigi and Politi, Matteo (2021). Editorial: Beyond the pharmacology of psychoactive plant medicines and drugs: pros and cons of the role of rituals and set and setting. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12 804254, 1-3. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.804254
Gearin, Alex K. and Devenot, Nese (2021). Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 24 (6), 917-935. doi: 10.1177/13678779211019424
Gearin, Alex K. and Sáez, Oscar Calavia (2021). Altered vision ayahuasca shamanism and sensory individualism. Current Anthropology, 62 (2), 138-163. doi: 10.1086/713737
Fotiou, Evgenia and Gearin, Alex K. (2019). Purging and the body in the therapeutic use of ayahuasca. Social Science and Medicine, 239 112532, 112532. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112532
Gearin, Alex (2016). Dividual vision of the individual: Ayahuasca Neo-Shamanism in Australia and the new age individualism orthodoxy. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 7 (2), 199-220. doi: 10.1558/ijsnr.v7i2.31955
Gearin, Alex K. (2015). "Whatever you want to believe': kaleidoscopic individualism and ayahuasca healing in Australia. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 26 (3), 442-455. doi: 10.1111/taja.12143

Thesis

Gearin, Alexander K. (2015). An Amazonian shamanic brew in Australia: ayahuasca healing and individualism. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.1038
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