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July 2008: Practices relative to sacred things
Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion by Émile Durkheim
Faith healing, speaking in tongues, and taking up serpents in the name of God by Martin Hoyem
The vision in Plains culture by Ruth Benedict
Consciousness produced by intoxicants and anaesthetics by William James
The visionary state: A journey through California's Spiritual Landscape reviewed by Martin Hoyem
May 2008: Codex Nuttall
Codex Nuttall. Facsimile of an Ancient Mexican Codex Belonging to Lord Zouche of Harynworth, England reviewed by J. Walter Fewkes
Zelia Nuttall by Alfred M. Tozzer
April 2008: Race and tambourine juggling
The concept of race by Ashley Montagu
The genetical theory of race, and anthropological method Ashley Montagu
February 2008: the movers and shakers
Richard Thurnwald 1869-1954 by Robert H. Lowie
Robert H. Lowie 1883-1957 by Paul Radin
Ruth Fulton Benedict 1887-1948 by Margaret Mead
Edward B. Tylor by Robert H. Lowie
Alfred Louis Kroeber 1876-1960 by Julian H. Steward
January 2008: peyote
The use of Peyote by the Carrizo and Lipan Apache tribes by Morris Edward Opler
The appeal of peyote (Lophophora Williamsii) as a medicine by Richard Evans Schultes
Note on Richard Schultes' "The Appeal of Peyote." by Weston La Barre
The Peyote Cult reviewed by Morris Edward Opler
A description of a Tonkawa peyote meeting held in 1902 by Morris Edward Opler
The character and history of the Southern Ute peyote rite by Marvin K. Opler
 

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