Peyote : history, tradition, politics, and conservation / Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar, editors ; foreword by James A. Bauml and Stacy B. Schaefer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.