Sacred Places, Sacred Plants, and Sacred People
Carving Out an Indigenous Right amid the Drug Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12970985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Dawson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-164 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social History of Alcohol Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-2783 • E-ISSN: 2640-7329 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/707590 |
| OpenAlex | W3015963265 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This essay examines overlapping efforts in Mexico to protect an ecologically sensitive region known as Wirikuta (which is one of the very few areas in the country where peyote grows) and manage access to that region for those who enjoy a right to collect and ritually consume the cactus. I focus on the deployment of the concept of the “sacred” in pursuing these goals and argue that, while the notion of the sacred clearly helped to mobilize certain forms of national and international support, it has also acted as a form of enclosure, limiting the options for those who enjoy a right to practice peyotism
Archaeology · Carving · Environmental ethics · Geography · Indigenous · Limiting · Political science · Sociology · Software deployment · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cambodian History and Society · Engineering · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |