Dr. Lígia D Platero

Ligia Duque Platero is Chacruna's Education Program Associate. She holds a bachelor's degree in history (2005) from the University of São Paulo (USP). She has a master's degree in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM - 2012). She has a doctorate in cultural anthropology (2018), from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her PhD looked at the cultural reinventions, transformations and exchanges amid the alliance between the Yawanawá Indigenous people and an urban church of Santo Daime. Her main research interests are: ayahuasca, sacred plants, interethnic relations, shamanic tourism and indigenous rights. 

See the abstract for Lígia's presentation, “‘Indigenous Reciprocity’ Amid Contemporary International Shamanic Networks.”