THE GHOST DANCE  The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion by Weston La Barre (1915-1996) is a classic search for the origins of religion, employing psychology and anthropology to explain elements of Greek, Egyptian, Jewish, Christian, shamanic and Native American religion.   The Ghost Dance offers a fascinating exploration of the history and origins of religious belief from earliest times to the present day. The Ghost Dance takes its place beside other great studies of religion, such as those by Sigmund Freud, Geza Roheim or Mircea Eliade.   WESTON LA BARRE   Weston La Barre is best known for his work in anthropology and ethnography, in which he drew on the theories of psychoanalysis and psychiatry. Born in Uniontown, PA, La Barre studied at Princeton and Yale, and later taught at Rutgers, Wisconsin and Duke universities. La Barre conducted field work across North and South America, and later through India, China, Africa and Europe. He studied the Plains Indians and their peyote cult with Richard Evans Schultes (which resulted in the 1938 book The Peyote Cult). La Barre's masterwork is The Ghost Dance: The Origin of Religion (1970), which draws together his explorations of shamanism, world religion, Native American culture, altered states of consciousness and the use of drugs in belief systems. His other books include The Human Animal (1954), They Shall Take Up Serpents (1962), Culture In Context (1990), and Muelos (1985).   BOOKS BY WESTON LA BARRE  The Peyote Cult ••• The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau ••• The Human Animal ••• Materia Medica of the Aymara ••• They Shall Take up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snakehandling Cult ••• Shadow of Childhood: Neoteny and the Biology of Religion ••• The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion ••• Culture in Context, Selected Writings of Weston La Barre ••• Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition About Sexuality

The ghost dance: origins of religion

LA BARRE, WESTON

Religion & Spirituality

Delta

The Peyote cult

History

Americas

Publisher

A history of man, examining his physical and psychological evolution, as well as his response to needs for order, language, and culture

The Human Animal

Science & Math

Univ of Chicago Pr

Muelos

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Columbia University Press

Book is clean and unmarked. Solid. Some damage to top edge of cover. Otherwise it's very good.

Anthropology

Columbia Univ. Pr.

A history of the Ghost Dance in the Great Plains during the 19th century. A very useful account by an early investigator.

Ghost Dance

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 the 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 Castaneda phenomenon, the progress of the Native 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.

The Peyote Cult

Schocken Books ~trade

The peyote cult

Schocken Books

Argues that juvenile characteristics are carried over into our adult lives, and discusses the belief in miracles and extraterrestrial life

Shadow of Childhood: Neoteny and the Biology of Religion

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Culture in context: Selected writings of Weston La Barre

Duke University Press

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