Muelos

by Weston La Barre

Book is clean and unmarked. Solid. Some damage to top edge of cover. Otherwise it's very good.

Genres: Anthropology

140 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1984

About the author

Weston La Barre is best known for his work in anthropology and ethnography, in which he drew on the theories of psychoanalysis and psychiatry. Born in Uniontown, PA, La Barre studied at Princeton and Yale, and later taught at Rutgers, Wisconsin and Duke universities. La Barre conducted field work across North and South America, and later through India, China, Africa and Europe. He studied the Plains Indians and their peyote cult with Richard Evans Schultes (which resulted in the 1938 book The Peyote Cult).

La Barre's masterwork is The Ghost Dance: The Origin of Religion (1970), which draws together his explorations of shamanism, world religion, Native American culture, altered states of consciousness and the use of drugs in belief systems.

Works:
The Peyote Cult
The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau
The Human Animal
Materia Medica of the Aymara
They Shall Take up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snakehandling Cult
Shadow of Childhood: Neoteny and the Biology of Religion
The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion
Culture in Context, Selected Writings of Weston La Barre
Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition About Sexuality

Reviews

[Bruce Graham · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of those head-opening books that, though short, is stuffed with ideas and threads to follow. Highly recommended, especially for fantasists who believe that life was so much richer and intelligent when we were 'closer to nature.' Sometimes it seems like the author is taking you on a tour of idiocy- we were dumb this way, this way, that way and this. Oh, and we still are.

[Giovanni Battista]

The sperm is the same substance of brain. Therefore, the source of life is in the (male) head. In my opinion, a book about patriarchy and (male) obsession with sex.