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Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas
\"Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade. She and her husband were the first federally licensed peyote dealers. They began harvesting and selling the sacramental plant to followers of the Native American Church (NAC) in the 1930s, and after her husband's death in the late 1960s Mrs. Cardenas continued to befriend and help generations of NAC members until her death in 2005, just short of her 101st birthday. Author Stacy B. Schaefer, a close friend of Amada, spent thirteen years doing fieldwork with this remarkable woman. Her book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew. Schaefer includes their words to help tell the story of how Mexican Americans, Tejanos, gringos, Native Americans, and others were touched and inspired by Amada Cardenas's embodiment of the core NAC values: faith, hope, love, and charity\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Huichol shamanism: traditional wisdom in a modern world
This article explores the ancient tradition of shamanism and its many facets in Huichol Indian culture. The Huichol Indians (Wixárika, Wixáritari pl.) live predominately in the Mexican states of Jalisco and Nayarit in their remote mountain homelands of the Sierra Madre Occidental. Their shamans have been vital keepers of ancient esoteric knowledge and leaders, healers, and diviners for their people. The shamanic tradition is passed down primarily through family kin ties. The path to becoming a shaman and the plants and animals that are shamanic allies will be discussed. This is followed by an examination of the shaman’s power objects and the wide array of specialties acquired. Finally, the article addresses the challenges to shamans in the 21st century and their crucial role to the survival of Huichol culture and identity.
Journal Article
Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas
Schaefer's book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew.
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Chamanismo huichol: sabiduría tradicional en un mundo moderno
Este artículo explora la tradición ancestral del chamanismo y sus múltiples facetas en la cultura de los indígenas huicholes. Los huicholes (wixárika, wixáritari pl.) viven principalmente en los estados mexicanos de Jalisco y Nayarit, en sus remotos territorios ancestrales en la Sierra Madre Occidental. Sus chamanes han sido guardianes vitales del antiguo conocimiento esotérico y líderes, curanderos y adivinos de su pueblo. La tradición chamánica se transmite principalmente a través de los lazos familiares. Este articulo discutirá el camino para ser un chamán y las plantas y animales que son aliados chamánicos. A esto le sigue un examen de los objetos de poder del chamán y la amplia gama de especialidades adquiridas. Por último, el artículo aborda los desafíos para los chamanes en el siglo XXI y su papel fundamental para la supervivencia de la cultura e identidad huichol.
Journal Article
Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas
Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade. She and her husband were the first federally licensed peyote dealers. They began harvesting and selling the sacramental plant to followers of the Native American Church (NAC) in the 1930s, and after her husband’s death in the late 1960s Mrs. Cardenas continued to befriend and help generations of NAC members until her death in 2005, just short of her 101st birthday. Author Stacy B. Schaefer, a close friend of Amada, spent thirteen years doing fieldwork with this remarkable woman. Her book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew. Schaefer includes their words to help tell the story of how Mexican Americans, Tejanos, gringos, Native Americans, and others were touched and inspired by Amada Cardenas’s embodiment of the core NAC values: faith, hope, love, and charity.
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Becoming a weaver: The woman's path in Huichol culture
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a thorough ethnographic study of backstrap loom weaving among the Huichol Indians from the sierra community of San Andres Cohamiata, in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. Huichol weaving, dating back to pre-Columbian times, plays an important role in the elaborate cultural traditions and worldview that make up Huichol culture. This weaving tradition is an essential part of the woman's world and becoming a weaver is synonymous with becoming a woman in Huichol society. The approach of this study is to examine weaving as a life-long enculturative process by which women experience, learn and pass onto succeeding generations telluric, technological, cultural, and cosmological knowledge vital to their role as women in Huichol culture. A detailed analysis of all the materials used in weaving, their various domestic and ritual uses, as well as their cosmological associations are discussed in order to show how weaving emerges, as Geertz (1973, 1983) proposes, as a kind of cultural system. From this perspective the backstrap loom is viewed as a \"key symbol,\" defined by Ortner (1973), to be a point of focus in the cognitive distinctions, values, and orientations of a culture. Within the backstrap loom and the activity of weaving, symbolic configurations are transmitted which permeate all levels of Huichol culture. The meaning imparted in the symbols which arise in the weaving tradition reveals underlying expressions of the importance of women and the feminine principles they represent in Huichol culture. In this manner, the backstrap loom, as a key symbol, takes on a heightened dimension as the extension of a woman's very essence, as well as her physical body. Through weaving, women metaphorically reinact the transformational powers they hold within their bodies to generate and regenerate life, thus insuring the survival and well being of Huichol culture.
Dissertation