Peyote: history, tradition, politics, and conservation

Decline of the genus lophophora in Texas / Keeper Trout and Martin Terry -- An overview of cacti and the controversial peyote / Mariana Rojas-Aréchiga and Joel Flores -- Peyote in the colonial imagination / Alexander Dawson -- Peyote, Christianity, and constitutional law : toward an anti-subordination jurisprudence / Varun Soni -- State and federal legal protections for peyote use in the United States / John P. Forren -- Peyote, conservation, and Indian rights in the United States / Kevin Feeney -- Protecting the peyote for future generations : building on a legacy of perseverance / Bob Prue -- Peyote and psychedelics on the Canadian prairies / Erika Dyck -- From solid to frothy : use of peyote in the Cora and Huichol Easter in western Mexico / Maria Benciolini and Arturo Gutiérrez del Ángel -- New age tourism in Wirikuta : conflicts and rituals / Vincent Basset -- Paradoxes of peyote regulation in Mexico : drug conventions and environmental laws / Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Kevin Feeney -- Why peyote must be valued as biocultural patrimony of Mexico / Mauricio Genet Guzmán Chávez.;This book explains the role that peyote--a hallucinogenic cactus--plays in the religious and spiritual fulfillment of certain peoples in the United States and Mexico, and examines pressing issues concerning the regulation and conservation of peyote as well as issues of indigenous and religious rights.--