Just read this book. It is in the anthropologist-goes-native-scholarly-but-readable genre, which is something I like. Also in this category are The Beauty of the Primitive, Reindeer People (by Vitebsky) and The Spears of Twilight. Peyote Hunt shows us such a different and beautiful and profound and immediate way of experiencing the world.
The
Huichol live incredibly simply in what is now Mexico, yet their way of
relating to the world is very sophisticated and hard for us to grasp. I
had the same experience with a Chippewa Cree friend from Canada who used
to stay with me.
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