Iboga : l’expérience psychédélique et l'expérience des Ancêtres

by James W. Fernandez

L’utilisation rituelle des plantes psychédéliques ne se limite pas au Nouveau Monde.

En Afrique, le peuple Fang a conservé vivant le culte de l’iboga, très puissant hallucinogène de la forêt gabonaise et élément central de la religion bwiti.

Un culte dont Omar bongo aura été grand maître...

482 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2000

About the author

James W. Fernandez, Ph.D. (Northwestern University, 1962; B.A., Amherst College, 1952), is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Previously he was Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, and was chair of the department of anthropology at Dartmouth College, 1971–1975. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for research in the social sciences in 2003. In 1983, he received the Herskovits Prize for Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination In Africa from the African Studies Association.