THE PEYOTE CULT

Yale University Publications in anthropology number 19

1938

WESTON LA BARRE

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION     

BOTANICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEYOTE 
Botany
Ethnobotany  
Names for peyote
Etymology of "peyotl" 
Identification of peyote
Physiology of Peyote Intoxication

THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM      
Non-ritual Uses of Peyote    
Ritual Uses of Peyotl
Huichol
Tarahumari   
Comparison of Mexican peyote rituals 
Mescalero Apache and transitional forms of ritual   
Kiowa-Comanche type rite  
Comparison of Mexican, transitional, and Plains peyotism  

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM     

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEYOTISM     

HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS   
The Pre-peyote Mescal Bean Cult  
History of the Diffusion of Peyotism

APPENDIX 1: Peyote in Mexico      

APPENDIX 2 : Peyote and the Mescal Bean   

APPENDIX 3: Peyote and Teo-nanacatl      

APPENDIX 4: "Plant Worship" in Mexico and the United States    

APPENDIX 5: Chemistry of Peyote     

APPENDIX 6: Physiology of Peyote    

APPENDIX 7: John Wilson, the Revealer of Peyote 

APPENDIX 8: Christian Elements in the Peyote Cult       

APPENDIX 9: The Native American Church and Other Peyote Churches     

BIBLIOGRAPHY     

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