124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Peyote: Cultural Uses and Political Responses in Mexico, Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries

Peyote: Cultural Uses and Political Responses in Mexico, Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries

AHA Session 48
Conference on Latin American History 8

Friday, January 8, 2010: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Edward C (Hyatt)

Chair:

Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles

Papers:

Desacralized Peyote Use in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Martin Nesvig, University of Miami

Peyote and the Indian in the Colonial Imagination
Alexander S. Dawson, Simon Fraser University

A Small, Powerful “Being”: Peyote and Cultural Continuity among the Huichols
Michele M. Stephens, University of Oklahoma

Comment:

Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles

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