The Peyote Effect (eBook)

From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs

Alexander S. Dawson (Autor)

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2018
320 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96090-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Effectexplores 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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1833: The Cholera Epidemic
Chapter One
1887: Dr. John Briggs Eats Some Peyote
Chapter Two
1899: The Instituto Médico Nacional
Chapter Three
1909: Poison
Chapter Four
1917: The Ban
Chapter Five
1918: The Native American Church
Chapter Six
1937: The Goshute Letter
Chapter Seven
1957: The Holy Thursday Experiment
Chapter Eight
1958: Alfonso Fabila Visits the Sierra Huichola
Chapter Nine
1964: Bona Fide
Chapter Ten
1971: Peyote Outlawed in Mexico
Chapter Eleven
1972: The Exemption
Chapter Twelve
2011: Tom Pinkson
Conclusion
Race, Space, Time

Notes
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: cactii • Cactus • Drug War • hallucinogenic plants • history of medicine • history of peyote • indian rituals • Indigenous Medicine • Indigenous Plants • indigenous rituals • Medicinal plants • mexican indian rituals • mexican rituals • native american church • Native American rituals • Native American Studies • native healing • native medicine • Natural Medicine • Peyote • peyote illegal • peyote legal • peyote medicine • peyote mexico • peyote poison • Peyote religion • peyote united states • peyote uses • peyotism • religious rites • uses of peyote
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96090-4 / 0520960904
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96090-9 / 9780520960909