The Peyote Cult

Author : Weston La Barre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0806122145

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The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Radin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9791220271882

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Author : Weston La Barre
Publisher : New Haven : Published for the Section of Anthropology, Department of the Social Sciences, Yale University, by the Yale University Press ; London : Oxford University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Indian mythology
ISBN : OCLC:314919919

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The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre Pdf

Author : Åke Hultkrantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015043097107

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The Attraction of Peyote by Åke Hultkrantz Pdf

This book discusses the Peyote religion, a religion centered around the ritual consumption of the Peyote cactus. Its ecclesiastical organization, the North American Church, has stirred some attention among scholars, most of them anthropologists. The author describes what he calls all the "nativistic" religious movements which have emerged in the Peyote tradition in North America over the past 200 years.

Author : Thomas C. Maroukis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185965

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The Peyote Road by Thomas C. Maroukis Pdf

Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of peyote. Thomas C. Maroukis has conducted extensive interviews with NAC members and leaders to craft an authoritative account of the church’s history, diverse religious practices, and significant people. His book integrates a narrative history of the Peyote faith with analysis of its religious beliefs and practices—as well as its art and music—and an emphasis on the views of NAC members. Deftly blending oral histories and legal research, Maroukis traces the religion’s history from its Mesoamerican roots to the legal incorporation of the NAC; its expansion to the northern plains, Great Basin, and Southwest; and challenges to Peyotism by state and federal governments, including the Supreme Court decision in Oregon v. Smith. He also introduces readers to the inner workings of the NAC with descriptions of its organizational structure and the Cross Fire and Half Moon services. The Peyote Road updates Omer Stewart’s classic 1987 study of the Peyote religion by taking into consideration recent events and scholarship. In particular, Maroukis discusses not only the church’s current legal issues but also the diminishing Peyote supply and controversies surrounding the definition of membership. Today approximately 300,000 American Indians are members of the Native American Church. The Peyote Road marks a significant case study of First Amendment rights and deepens our understanding of the struggles of NAC members to practice their faith.

Author : David Friend Aberle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Navajo Indians
ISBN : UOM:39015005683605

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The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho by David Friend Aberle Pdf

Author : Alexander S. Dawson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520960909

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The Peyote Effect by Alexander S. Dawson Pdf

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.

Author : Omer Call Stewart
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0806124571

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Peyote Religion by Omer Call Stewart Pdf

Describes the peyote plant, the birth of peyotism in western Oklahoma, its spread from Indian Territory to Mexico, the High Plains, and the Far West, its role among such tribes as the Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Caddo, Wichita, Delaware, and Navajo Indians, its conflicts with the law, and the history of the Native American Church.

Author : Paul Radin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1479146609

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The Peyote Cult by Paul Radin Pdf

Peyote has never been a drug for thrill seekers. The small, hard cactus is difficult to obtain. It tastes vile, ingestion normally leads to painful vomiting, and the effects are more subtle than other psychedelics. The Native American Peyote ceremony emerged at the turn of the 20th century, like the Ghost Dance, at a time when Native American culture was under much stress. It blended Christian and traditional beliefs, and used Peyote as a sacrament. The Peyote ceremony spread from the Southwest into the Plains and other culture regions. Participants reported a spiritual cleansing, and experienced healing effects, which may be the result of powerful natural antibiotics in Peyote.

Author : James Sydney Slotkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UVA:X000129021

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The Peyote Religion by James Sydney Slotkin Pdf

Author : Alice Marriott,Carol K. Rachlin
Publisher : New York : Crowell
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Religion
ISBN : 069061697X

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Peyote by Alice Marriott,Carol K. Rachlin Pdf

"An account of the origins and growth of the peyote religion".

Author : Frances Densmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : CUB:U183001788009

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The Peyote Cult and Treatment of the Sick Among the Winneabago Indians by Frances Densmore Pdf

Author : Silvester J. Brito
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : WISC:89060407277

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The Way of a Peyote Roadman by Silvester J. Brito Pdf

This fascinating study is a narrative account of the author's personal search for a better understanding of the Peyote religion. It is a phenomenological presentation which guides the reader through the complex ritual of the Peyote ceremony as seen through the eyes of its congregation. Moreover, it presents the reader with the author's unique experience in using the sacred Peyote cactus in ritual context. This work is a major contribution to scholarly studies on the Peyote religion, specifically: The Peyote Cult (1964) by Weston La Barre, The Peyote Religion Among the Navajo (1966) by David F. Aberlie and Peyote History (1987) by Omer C. Stewart.

Author : Phillip M. White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313097126

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Peyotism and the Native American Church by Phillip M. White Pdf

The largest religion begun, organized, and directed by and for Native Americans, Peyotism includes the use of peyote in its ceremonies. As a sacred plant of divine origin, peyote use was well established in religious rituals in pre-Columbian Mexico. Toward the end of the 19th century Peyotism spread to the Indians of Texas and the Southwest, and it spread rapidly in the United States after the subsidence of the Ghost Dance. It persists today among Native Americans in Northern Mexico, the United States, and Southern Canada. Possibly because of the controversy over peyote use, a lot has been written about the Native American Church. This bibliography provides a useful guide for scholars, students, and Native Americans who want to research Peyotism. The bibliography includes books and book chapters, master's theses, Ph.D. dissertations, magazine and journal articles, conference papers, museum publications, U.S. government publications, audiovisual materials, and World Wide Web sites. In addition, it includes selected articles from newspapers, law reviews, medical and psychiatric journals, and scientific journals that provide information on Peyotism. A valuable research guide, the bibliography will help to provide a greater understanding of the history, ceremonies, and significance of the pan-Indian religion.

Author : Vincenzo Petrullo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512818376

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The Diabolic Root by Vincenzo Petrullo Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.