People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082631905X ISBN 13: 9780826319050

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 1997

Synopsis

People of the Peyote explores the Huichol Indians of Mexico, who are best known for their worship of the peyote cactus. Ritually harvested each year, the peyote flower plays a central role in most Huichol observances of the annual ceremonial round. The Huichols have been the most culturally persistent indigenous group in Mexico and have maintained their pre-Christian religion with only minimal accommodation to Catholicism. Eighteen essays explore Huichol ethnography, ethnohistory, shamanism, religion, mythology, art, ethnobotany, society, and other topics. The authors, including Huichol contributors, are an international array of scholars on the Huichols and indigenous peoples of Mexico.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Stacy B. Schaefer is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas in Edinburg. Peter T. Furst, professor emeritus at SUNY in Albany, is a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 082631905X
• ISBN 13: 9780826319050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Schaefer Stacy B., Furst Peter T.