Publications

Peer-Reviewed Books & Journal Articles

2025  “Santo Daime Ethnopsychiatry: Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care Implications of a Global Ayahuasca Healing Tradition from Amazonia.” In Michael J. Winkelman (Ed.), Handbook of Entheogenic Healing (pp. 242-272), Leiden, NL: Brill.

2021   Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuasca Religion as Mystical Healing.  Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

2016. "Groundwork for the Anthropology of Belgium: An overlooked Microcosm of Europe". Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 81(3): 478-507.

2015. “Forbidden Therapies: Santo Daime, Ayahuasca, and the Prohibition of Entheogens in Western Society”. Journal of Religion and Health 54(1): 287-302.

2011. Co-authored with Paul Healy. “Ancient Maya Mosaic Mirrors: Function, Symbolism, and Meaning”. Ancient Mesoamerica 22(2): 229-244.

2010. “Towards an Ethnometaphysics of Consciousness". Anthropology of Consciousness 21(2): 113-138.

2010. “Deciphering Ancient Maya Ethno-Metaphysics: Conventional Icons Signifying the King-as-Conduit Complex”. Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 3(3): 267-290.

Editing & Chapters

2016. I co-edited a volume with Emiliano Gallaga called:

Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.

2016. “Techniques of Luminosity: Iron-Ore Mirrors and Entheogenic Shamanism among the Ancient Maya”. In Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm edited by Emiliano Gallaga and Marc G. Blainey (pp. 179-206). Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.   FULL TEXT PDF

2016. Co-authored with Carrie Dennett. “Reflecting on Exchange: Ancient Maya Mirrors beyond the Southeast Periphery”. In Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm edited by Emiliano Gallaga and Marc G. Blainey (pp. 229-253). Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado. 

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Book Reviews

2011. Review of “Opening the Portals to Heaven: Brazilian Ayahuasca Music” by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Gustavo Pacheco. Latin American Music Review 32(1): 169-173.

Other Publications

2011. "An Anthropology of Third-Wave Mayanism: Emic Rationales behind New Age (Mis)Appropriations of Ancient Maya Calendrics and Symbology". In Identity Crisis: Archaeology and Problems of Social Identity (42nd Annual Chacmool Conference Proceedings [2009]), edited by L. Amundsen, S. Pickering, and G. Oetelaar, pp. 352-365. Calgary: Chacmool Archaeological Association (University of Calgary). 

2010.  “Anthropology and Ethnometaphysics” (Review/Endorsement of my 2010 article published in the Anthropology of Consciousness journal, see above), Anthropology News column for Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, authored by Peter N Jones (Contributing Editor). Anthropology News, November 2010: 47-48.

2007 M.A. Thesis: "Surfaces and Beyond: The Political, Ideological, and Economic Significance of Ancient Maya Iron-ore Mirrors"; WAYEB: The European Association of Mayanists