They Shall Take Up Serpents by Weston La Barre

He wrote on the importance of socialization for the development of ethics and the elements of the same that we find in folktales and myths. The works predated the interests of medical anthropology and cognitive anthropology by several decades.Ī central perspective in La Barre’s work beginning in the 1930s was the application of psychiatric- especially psychoanalytic-insights to ethnography.

These developed into both descriptive and theoretical writings on Native American hallucinogens and the relation of these to ecstatic religious experience in both the Old and the New World. La Barre’s ethnobotanical interests continued in studies on Kiowa folk medicine, Aymara materia medica, and potato taxonomy. These works concerned peyote, on which he wrote The Peyote Cult, which has been reprinted and revised numerous times and remains a standard work on the subject. La Barre’s fieldwork had begun in 1935 with the study of the Kiowa of the Plains. After the war, La Barre, as a Guggenheim Fellow, studied the Japanese and the Chinese and joined the faculty at Duke University. He joined the Navy as a parachutist trained for naval intelligence but spent two years in China (again, with George Devereux) and Kandy, Sri Lanka. World War II interrupted La Barre’s teaching at his first post, Rutgers University. She later taught at Duke University Medical Center until her retirement.

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They Shall Take Up Serpents by Weston La Barre