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Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374511005
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Peyote Dance written by Antonin Artaud and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1975 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander S. Dawson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520960904
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Peyote Effect written by Alexander S. Dawson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872860001
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Artaud Anthology written by Antonin Artaud and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1965 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud's vatic thunder still crashes above the "larval confusion" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity. This collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.
Author : Stacy B. Schaefer
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826319050
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book People of the Peyote written by Stacy B. Schaefer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.
Author : Christina Pratt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404211414
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (114 download)
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2 written by Christina Pratt and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.
Author : Carleton Stafford Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Yaqui Deer Dance written by Carleton Stafford Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Omer Call Stewart
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806124575
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (245 download)
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.
Author : United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library Book Catalog written by United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Library Book Catalog written by United States. Department of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. J. Knab
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826332042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Mad Jesus written by T. J. Knab and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book not only provides an overview of the Huichol and the plight of Mesoamerican Indians but also sheds light on traditional religion, indigenous Catholicism, messianic cults, urbanization, and indigenous conflicts with the modern Mexican state."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Mike Jay
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245084
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Mescaline written by Mike Jay and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, after which the word “psychedelic” was coined to describe it. Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: the earliest Andean cultures depicted mescaline-containing cacti in their temples. Mescaline was isolated in 1897 from the peyote cactus, first encountered by Europeans during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. During the twentieth century it was used by psychologists investigating the secrets of consciousness, spiritual seekers from Aleister Crowley to the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, artists exploring the creative process, and psychiatrists looking to cure schizophrenia. Meanwhile peyote played a vital role in preserving and shaping Native American identity. Drawing on botany, pharmacology, ethnography, and the mind sciences and examining the mescaline experiences of figures from William James to Walter Benjamin to Hunter S. Thompson, this is an enthralling narrative of mescaline’s many lives.
Author : Jay Courtney Fikes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0759120269
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Unknown Huichol written by Jay Courtney Fikes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual. The scope and length of Fikes's research, combined with the depth of his participation with four Huichol shamans, enable him to convey with empathy details of shamanic initiation, methods for diagnosis and treatment of illness, and motives for performing funeral, deer and peyote hunting, and maize-cultivating rituals.
Author : Benjamin Kohlmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501399314
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Political Uses of Literature written by Benjamin Kohlmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment. The question of literature's 'uses' has recently become a key topic of academic and public debate. Paradoxically, however, these conversations often tend to bypass the rich history of engagements with literature's distinctly political uses that form such a powerful current of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production and critical-theoretical reflection. The Political Uses of Literature reopens discussion of literature's political and activist genealogies along several interrelated lines: As a foundational moment, it draws attention to the important body of interwar politicized literature and to debates about literature's ability to intervene in social reality. It then traces the mobilization of related conversations and artistic practices across several historical conjunctures, most notably the committed literature of the 1960s and our own present. In mapping out these geographically and artistically diverse traditions – including case studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, India and Russia – contributors advance critical discussions in the field, making questions pertaining to politicized art newly compelling to a broader and more diverse readership. Most importantly, this volume insists on the need to think about literature's political uses today – at a time when it has become increasingly difficult to imagine any kind of political efficacy for art, even as the need to do so is growing more and more acute. Literature may not proffer easy answers to our political problems, but as this collection suggests, the writing of the 20th century holds out aesthetic resources for a renewed engagement with the dilemmas that face us now.
Author : Beatriz Caiuby Labate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440834016
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Peyote written by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the role that peyote—a hallucinogenic cactus—plays in the religious and spiritual fulfillment of certain peoples in the United States and Mexico, and examines pressing issues concerning the regulation and conservation of peyote as well as issues of indigenous and religious rights. Why is mescaline—an internationally controlled substance derived from peyote—given exemptions for religious use by indigenous groups in Mexico, and by the pan-indigenous Native American Church in the United States and Canada? What are the intersections of peyote use, constitutional law, and religious freedom? And why are natural populations of peyote in decline—so much so that in Mexico, peyote is considered a species needing "special protection"? This fascinating book addresses these questions and many more. It also examines the delicate relationship between "the needs of the plant" as a species and "the needs of man" to consume the species for spiritual purposes. The authors of this work integrate the history of peyote regulation in the United States and the special "trust responsibility" relationship between the American Indians and the government into their broad examination of peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus containing mescaline that grows naturally in Mexico and southern Texas. The book's chapters document how when it comes to peyote, multiple stakeholders' interests are in conflict—as is often the case with issues that involve ethnic identity, religion, constitutional interpretation, and conservation. The expansion of peyote traditions also serves as a foundation for examining issues of international human rights law and protections for religious freedom within the global milieu of cultural transnationalism.
Author : Jeff Biggers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056973
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book In the Sierra Madre written by Jeff Biggers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning history of legendary treasure seekers and enigmatic natives in Mexico's Copper Canyon The Sierra Madre--no other mountain range in the world possesses such a ring of intrigue. In the Sierra Madre is a groundbreaking and extraordinary memoir that chronicles the astonishing history of one of the most famous, yet unknown, regions in the world. Based on his one-year sojourn among the Raramuri/Tarahumara, award-winning journalist Jeff Biggers offers a rare look into the ways of the most resilient indigenous culture in the Americas, the exploits of Mexican mountaineers, and the fascinating parade of argonauts and accidental travelers that has journeyed into the Sierra Madre over centuries. From African explorers, Bohemian friars, Confederate and Irish war deserters, French poets, Boer and Russian commandos, Apache and Mennonite communities, bewildered archaeologists, addled writers, and legendary characters including Antonin Artaud, B. Traven, Sergei Eisenstein, George Patton, Geronimo, and Pancho Villa, Biggers uncovers the remarkable treasures of the Sierra Madre.
Author : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
