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Product Description: The rural Southern snake-handling cult, still flourishing, is graphically described in its complex historical, ethnographic, and psychosexual background. The specific poor-white, extreme fundamentalist setting of the cult is placed in its New Testament context and in relation to the folklore of similar practices in Africa, Mexico, and the ancient world...read more
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9780881336634 | Reprint edition (Waveland Pr Inc, March 1, 1992), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The rural Southern snake-handling cult, still flourishing, is graphically described in its complex historical, ethnographic, and psychosexual background.
Argues that juvenile characteristics are carried over into our adult lives, and discusses the belief in miracles and extraterrestrial life
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9780806123288 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Argues that juvenile characteristics are carried over into our adult lives, and discusses the belief in miracles and extraterrestrial life
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9780881335613 | Reprint edition (Waveland Pr Inc, July 1, 1990), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This is an example product description.
Product Description: For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barreâs 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...read more
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9780208014566 | 4th edition (Shoe String Pr Inc, June 1, 1976), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Accompanies the author's ground-breaking 1938 study of ritual use of the peyote cactus by Mexican and American Indians with surveys of research and studies in the field between 1938 and 1973
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9780806122144 | 5 enlarged edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, August 1, 1989), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barreâs 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.
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9780385283236 | Delacorte Pr, February 1, 1972, cover price $4.95 | also contains Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution: Changing Roles, Changing Lives | About this edition: Each religion is the Ghost Dance of a traumatized society- in the experience of the American Indian after his defeats in the Indian wars.
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9783111282596 | Reprint edition (Mouton De Gruyter, April 1, 1967), cover price $182.00
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9780226467061 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1954, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: A history of man, examining his physical and psychological evolution, as well as his response to needs for order, language, and culture
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