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Peyote Cult (Paperback, 5th Revised edition)
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Peyote Cult (Paperback, 5th Revised edition)
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For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barre's
fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age
twenty-four, studied the rites of fifteen American Indian tribes
using Lophophora williamsii, the small, spineless, carrot-shaped
peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward.
Continuing his research from the 1930s through the 1980s, Weston La
Barre reviews topics such as the Timothy Leary-Richard Alpert
""experiments"" with peyote and other psychotropic substances, the
Carlos Castaneda phenomenon, the progress of the Native American
Church toward acceptance as a religious denomination, the
presumptions of the Neo-American Church, the legal ramifications of
ritual drug use, and the spread of peyotism from the Southwest to
other North American tribes. This new edition of La Barre's classic
study includes 334 new entries in the latest of his highly valued
bibliographical essays on works relating to peyote, not just in
anthropology but in a variety of fields including archeology,
economics, botany, chemistry, and pharmacology. The bibliography
lists important contributions in popular media such as newspapers,
audiotapes, and films, as well as in scholarly journals.
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