United Kingdom, Anthropologist December 13, 1911 – March, 13, 1996.
Raoul Weston La Barre was an American anthropologist, best known for his work in ethnobotany, particularly with regard to Native-American religion, and for his application of psychiatric and psychoanalytic theories to ethnography.
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.
We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
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