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Unknown Huichol
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Pages: 294
Authors: Jay Courtney Fikes
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol sh
Unknown Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 566
Authors: Carl Lumholtz
Categories: Electronic books
Type: BOOK - Published: 1902 - Publisher:

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Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922) was a Norwegian ethnographer and explorer who, soon after publishing an influential study of Australian Aborigines (also reissued in t
Huichol Mythology
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Robert M. Zingg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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Best known for their ritual use of peyote, the Huichol people of west-central Mexico carried much of their original belief system into the twentieth century una
In the Lands of Fire and Sun
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Michele McArdle Stephens
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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The Huichols (or Wixárika) of western Mexico are among the most resilient and iconic indigenous groups in Mexico today. In the Lands of Fire and Sun examines t
The Peyote Effect
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Alexander S. Dawson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-04 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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The hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. While some have attempted t