http://www.americanethnography.com/ American Ethnography is an internet glossy on the study of cultures. We cover ethnography that relates to anything we would call America. en-us Copyright 2008 American Ethnography Thu, 10 July 2008 20:35:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/img/rss-header.gif http://www.americanethnography.com/ http://www.americanethnography.com/july2008.php "Nitrous oxide and ether, especially nitrous oxide, when sufficiently diluted with air, stimulate the mystical consciousness in an extraordinary degree..." Thu, 10 July 2008 20:37:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=42 Some great 1946 photos showing snake handling in a Holiness Church in Kentucky Thu, 10 July 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=54 We've been reading Erik Davis and Michael Rauner's beautiful book Thu, 10 July 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=41 Emile Durkheim's "Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion" from 1912. Thu, 10 July 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=48 A snippet from William James' chapter on "Mysticism" from The Varieties of Religious Experience Thu, 10 July 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=46 Ruth Benedict, describing in an article from 1922, the pursuit of the vision among Plains Indians. Thu, 10 July 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/may2008.php ... It's sooo cool, you have to read it! Tue, 6 May 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=39 Review of the 1902 edition. Tue, 6 May 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=40 Zelia Nuttall's obituary from 1933. Tue, 6 May 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/april2008.php Primrose and West's Big Minstrels poster with the Freeze Brothers, the wonderful tambourine jugglers. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:18:49 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=37 "The common definition of 'race' is based upon an arbitrary and superficial selection of external characters." Written by Ashley Montagu in 1942. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:18:49 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=36 "The chief objection to the term 'race' with reference to man is that it takes for granted as solved problems which are far from being so and tends to close the mind to problems to which it should always remain open." Written by Ashley Montagu in 1962. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:18:49 GMT http://www.americanethnography.com/february2008.php American Ethnography dived into the vaults and came up with obituaries on some of the trendsetting anthropologists of the last century. Thu, 15 Feb 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=6 Obituary written by Robert H. Lowie. From 1954. Thu, 15 Feb 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=6 Obituary written by Paul Radin. From 1958. Thu, 15 Feb 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=7 Obituary written by Margaret Mead. From 1949. Thu, 15 Feb 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=9 Obituary written by Robert H. Lowie. From 1917. Thu, 15 Feb 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=10 Obituary written by Julian H. Steward. From 1961. Thu, 15 Feb 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/january2008.php About eating cacti in search of spiritual enlightenment. Thu, 15 Jan 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=12 Morris Edward Opler reports from the field. From 1938. Thu, 15 Jan 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=20 In 1938, Richard Evans Schultes, the father of modern ethnobotany, wrote: "For more than fifty years, there has been a growing interest in the peyote-cult among American anthropologists. An extensive literature has appeared concerning the ceremonial use of Lophophora Williamsii in the United States as well as in Mexico, where its use extends back probably for more than twenty centuries." In 1938, as a Harvard undergraduate student, Richard Evans Schultes had done fieldwork in Oklahoma. Also taking peyote himself, he studied how the cactus was eaten in the rituals of native Kiowa and Comanche Indians. One of Schultes' earliest works. Thu, 15 Jan 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=21 Weston La Barre comments on Richard Evans Schultes' article on peyote used as a medicine. From 1939. Thu, 15 Jan 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=25 Morris Edward Opler reviews Weston La Barre's book. From 1939. Thu, 15 Jan 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=24 Morris Edward Opler reports from the field. From 1939. Thu, 15 Jan 2008 http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=26 A 1940 article by Marvin K. Opler on "the Indian's church." Thu, 15 Jan 2008