Drug Eruptions

Kuokkanen, K

doi:10.1111/j.1398-9995.1972.tb01440.x

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“…66 Even Jacques Derrida interpreted the gift as a "forfeiture of something for the sake of receiving something else." 67 In these cases, Kuokkanen notes that Western scholars cannot seem to help interpreting Indigenous gift logic through a Western lens, which for Mauss, Bourdieu, and Derrida include economizing this practice and, for Bourdieu, viewing the gift as a means of achieving power over others. The following text outlines both feminist gift theory and Indigenous gift logic, and we reveal how the gift, in Indigenous cultures, is very different from how it has been construed by early influential Western scholars.…”

Section: The Logic Of the Giftmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tending a Vibrant World

Williams,

Brant

2023

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Indigenous people have been stewards of sacred plant medicines for millennia. Many of these sacred medicines-such as tobacco, cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and more recently the ayahuasca admixture and psilocybin-containing fungi-have been commercialized via their entry into the global capitalist economy. In this article, we offer readers an introduction to Indigenous gift logic as an alternative to the necropolitics of colonial extraction associated with the contemporary psychedelic resurgence. Unlike barter or monetary-based economic systems, gift economies are based on the notion of gift giving without a tacit agreement for future reward. The logic of the gift goes beyond this accessible definition in that it underpins an episteme of relationality that is difficult (if not impossible) to nurture when our plant and fungal relations are treated as things or commodities, rather than lives with their own habits, dispositions, and agency. We offer suggestions for reorienting the psychedelic resurgence to create space for relational ontologies to flourish, indexed to place, and informed by Indigenous gift logic.

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Section: The Logic Of the Giftmentioning

confidence: 99%