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The Peyote Effect - From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs (Hardcover)
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The Peyote Effect - From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs (Hardcover)
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The hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied
history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas.
While some have attempted to explain the cultural and religious
significance of this cactus and drug, Alexander S. Dawson offers a
completely new way of understanding the place of peyote in history.
In this provocative new book, Dawson argues that peyote has marked
the boundary between the Indian and the West since the Spanish
Inquisition outlawed it in 1620. For nearly four centuries
ecclesiastical, legal, scientific, and scholarly authorities have
tried (unsuccessfully) to police that boundary to ensure that,
while indigenous subjects might consume peyote, others could not.
Moving back and forth across the U.S.-Mexico border, The Peyote
Effect explores how battles over who might enjoy a right to consume
peyote have unfolded in both countries, and how these conflicts
have produced the racially exclusionary systems that characterizes
modern drug regimes. Through this approach we see a surprising
history of the racial thinking that binds these two countries more
closely than we might otherwise imagine.
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