Download or read book The Peyote Cult written by Weston La Barre and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the classical study of the background of the Mexican and American Indian ritual based on the plant that produces profound but temporary sensory and psychic derangements. Acid-heads and mind-blowing cultists will find much thought-food in this careful anthropological work, and in the author's new preface, with its penetrating appraisal of the use of artificial psychedelic drugs as instruments of revolt... The study started when the author was twenty-four; he participated in the rites of fifteen tribes using Lophophora williamsii (Lemaire), a small, spineless, carrot-shaped cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward. The original study has been supplemented by two essays that bring the account up to 1964, including a report of the Timothy Leary-Richard Alpert "débacle" at Harvard in 1963."--Google.

Download or read book The Peyote Cult written by Paul Radin and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Peyote Cult written by Weston La Barre and published by New Haven : Published for the Section of Anthropology, Department of the Social Sciences, Yale University, by the Yale University Press ; London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1938 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peyote Religion written by Omer Call Stewart and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Peyote Road written by Thomas C. Maroukis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Peyote Cult and the Native American Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Function of the Peyote Cult in Three North American Indian Tribes written by Curtis Cox and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peyote Religion written by James Sydney Slotkin and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Attraction of Peyote written by Åke Hultkrantz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Peyote Cult New Enlarged Edition With Illustrations written by Weston LA BARRE and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peyote Cult in the United States written by Catherine Ives and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho written by David Friend Aberle and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the history and nature of the peyote cult in the Navaho country, with long-continues resistance to the cult of teh majority of the tribe and the vast majority of the Tribal Council, and with the facotrs that promote indivisual acceptance of the cult and that account for variation in the level of acceptance of the cult in various communities.

Download or read book The Peyote Cult and Treatment of the Sick Among the Winneabago Indians written by Frances Densmore and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peyote Cult written by Willena D. Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peyote Cult written by Denver Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peyote Cult written by Marguerite E. Seitz and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Religion of the Peyote Cult of the Winnebago Indians written by J. Cyril Flower and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.