Ebook {Epub PDF} The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre

Rare first edition, printed for the Yale Anthropology Department, of La Barre's landmark study of ritual peyote use among the Plains Indians, built on his doctoral research and field work. Near fine. Item # The anthropologist's first book, and his most influential, covering the history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its. Weston La Barre () was an anthropology professor at Duke University from to Prior to coming to Duke, La Barre worked in military intelligence in the U.S. Navy during World War II. The Weston La Barre Papers include correspondence, publications, lectures, committee materials, teaching materials, photographs, audio recordings, scrapbooks and other materials. For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured Weston 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.

For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barre's fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age twenty-four, studyied the rites of fifteen American Indian tribes using Lophophora williamsii, the small, spinelss, carrot-shaped peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward. Continuing his research from the s through the s, Weston La Barre. For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured Weston 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. Peyote Studies b Weston La Barre PEYOTE (from the Aztec peyotl) is a small, spineless, carrot-shaped cactus, Lophophora williamsii Lemaire, which grows wild in the Rio Grande Valley and south-ward. It is mostly subterranean, a,nd only the grayish-green pincushion-like top appears above ground, with spiral radial grooves dividing the puffy.

The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre () is the classic work on peyotism, originating in Weston La Barre's studies of the use of peyote in the rituals of fifteen Native American tribes in the s. It has been revised many times. Rare first edition, printed for the Yale Anthropology Department, of La Barre's landmark study of ritual peyote use among the Plains Indians, built on his doctoral research and field work. Near fine. Item # The anthropologist's first book, and his most influential, covering the history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its. The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre () is the classic work on peyotism, originating in La Barre’s studies of the use of peyote in the rituals of fifteen Native American tribes in the s. It has been revised many times.