Books & Articles

1. Books, Volumes, Special Issues

Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds, Stanford University Press, 2024 [Press website][Introduction chapter][buy in Australia]

The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Reinventions and Controversies (co-edited volume), Routledge, 2017 [Press website]

Beyond the Pharmacology of Psychoactive Plant Medicines and Drugs: Pros and Cons of the Role of Rituals and Set and Setting (co-edited issue Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 [website][editorial]

2. Research Articles

From Stress Reduction to Contemplative Cultivation: a Mixed-Methods Study of Meditation Motives, Challenges and Risks in Hong Kong, Mindfulness, 2025 [full text]

Psychedelic Atmospherics, Psychedelic Intersections, Harvard Divinity School, 2024 [full text]

Healing with Ayahuasca the Plant Teacher: Psychedelic Metaphoricity and Polyontologies, Medical Anthropology, 2024 [webpage]

Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life, Neuroethics, 2024 [full text]

On the Ambiguity of Psychedelic Awe in China, Anthropology Today, 2024 [full text]

Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives, Social Science and Medicine, 2023 [full text]

Primitivist medicine and capitalist anxieties in ayahuasca tourism Peru, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2022 [full text]

Altered vision: ayahuasca shamanism and sensory individualism Current Anthropology, 2021 [full text] includes replies from seven anthropologists.

Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution International Journal of Cultural Studies , 2021 [webpage]

Purging and the body in the therapeutic use of ayahuasca, Social Science & Medicine, 2019 [full text]

Dividual vision of the individual: ayahuasca neo-shamanism in Australia and the new age individualism orthodoxy, Int. J. Study New Religions, 2016 [full text]

‘Whatever you want to believe’: kaleidoscopic individualism and ayahuasca healing in Australia, The Australian Journal of Anthropology , 2015 [full text]

3. Book Chapters

Becoming modern in China with an Amazonian psychedelic brew, in Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics, MIT Press [full text]

Acacia Confusa: Xiangsi, in The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence. Synergetic Press, 2021 [webpage]

“La Dieta”: Ayahuasca and the Western reinvention of indigenous Amazonian food shamanism, in The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora, Routledge, 2017 [full text]

Good Mother Nature: Ayahuasca neoshamanism as cultural critique in Australia, in The World Ayahuasca Diaspora, 1-18, 2016 [webpage]

Introduction: The shifting journey of ayahuasca in diaspora, in The World Ayahuasca Diaspora, 1-18, 2016 [full text]