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Introduction
People of the peyote: Huichol Indian history, religion, & survival • Albuquerque • Published In 1996 • Pages: 1-25
By: Schaefer, Stacy B., Furst, Peter T..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document covers some of the factors that have allowed the Huichol to retain their pre-Christian religion with few accommodations to the dominant Catholic faith. The most important reason is the centrality of traditional Huichol religion—an enormous repository of practical and esoteric knowledge passed down through the generations by divine ancestors—defining not just ethnic identity but everyday practice as well. (For non-English terms see Schaefer [1996] "Glossary." For references cited see Schaefer and Furst [1996] "Bibliography.")
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- General character of religion
- Congregations
- Mythology
- Revelation and divination
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Missions
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Ethnopsychology
- Extended families
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Huichol
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1984-1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Sierra Madre Occidental (Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango, and Zacatecas), Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stacy B. Schaefer and Peter T. Furst
- for bibliographical references see document 23: [Schaefer and Furst]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95032453
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Huichol Indians