The Peyote Cult (Paperback)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 334 pages
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press; 5th Enlarged edition (August 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806122145
• ISBN-13: 978-0806122144
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,507,380 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Peyote Cult, March 2, 2008

By	cortezhill (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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 th 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 Casteneda phenomenon, the progress of the North 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 [5th] 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 scholarly journals.
--- from book's back cover