Inventory of the Weston La Barre Papers, 1930 - 1996
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleWeston La Barre Papers,
1930 - 1996.
Creator
La Barre, Weston, 1911-
Extent
31 Linear Feet,
30,000 Items
Repository
30,000 Items
University Archives, Duke University
Abstract
Weston La Barre (1911-1996) was an
anthropology professor at Duke University from 1946 to 1977. Prior to coming to Duke, La Barre
worked in military intelligence in the U.S. Navy during World War II. The Weston La Barre Papers
include correspondence, publications, lectures, committee materials, teaching materials,
photographs, audio recordings, scrapbooks and other materials. La Barre's professional interests
included cultural anthropology, religion, psychodelic drugs such as peyote, and psychology. Major
correspondents include George Devereux, Allen Ginsberg, Alexander Morin, Richard Evans Schultes,
and Howard Stein.
Language
English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Weston La Barre Papers, University Archives, Duke
University.
Provenance
The Weston La Barre Papers was received by the University Archives as a gift in 1981,
1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997.
Processing Information
Processed by Valerie Gillispie
Completed January 15, 2005
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Biographical Note
Weston La Barre was born on December 13, 1911, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Until about the age of 30, La Barre sometimes went by the names "I. Weston LaBarrer" and "Raoul La Barre" before using "Weston La Barre" exclusively. La Barre attended Princeton University and graduated with an A.B. degree in 1933. He then attended Yale University and received his Ph.D. degree in 1937. La Barre conducted a number of anthropological field trips beginning in 1935, when he studied Kiowa Indians. He conducted research on peyote in 1936, which grew into his dissertation and later his book, The Peyote Cult. In 1937, La Barre traveled to Bolivia to research the Aymara.
La Barre began teaching in 1939 at Rutgers University, the same year he married Maurine Boie, a social worker. After World War II broke out, the La Barres moved to Utah to work for the War Relocation Authority. After a short period, Weston La Barre joined the Navy and was trained a parachutist. He was assigned to parachute into an area of Laos because of his previous study of Southeast Asian ethnography. However, due to changes caused by the newly created Office of Strategic Services, La Barre spent several months each in Calcutta, Kunming, and Chungking before being moved to Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) for nine months. He then returned to the United States and worked with the Atlantic Fleet before commissioned out of the naval reserve in 1946.
In that same year, La Barre was offered a teaching position at Duke University, a position he held until 1977. During his Duke career, La Barre taught many anthropology courses on culture, religion, psychiatry, and symbolism. He was known as a popular, if difficult, professor. He co-currently taught in the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine from 1956 to 1959, and was a visiting clinical professor of psychiatry at UNC from 1959 to 1969. In addition to his teaching duties, La Barre lectured at hundreds of universities and conferences and published numerous articles. He also published several books during his Duke career, including The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau (1948), The Human Animal (1954), Materia Medica of the Aymara Indians (1959), They Shall Take Up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snake-Handling Cult (1966), The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion (1970). In 1970, he became a James B. Duke Professor of Anthropology.
La Barre retired in 1977, but continued to publish articles and books. Books published after La Barre's retirement include Culture in Context (1980), Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition About Sexuality (1985), Shadow of Childhood: Neotony and the Biology of Religion (1991), and Jonathan (1993, published under the name Jonathan Crocker).
La Barre's wife passed away in 1991. They had three children: John, David, and An. Weston La Barre passed away on March 13, 1996 in Chapel Hill. He was 84 years old.
[top]Collection Overview
The Weston La Barre Papers include correspondence, publications, lectures, committee
materials, teaching materials, photographs, audio recordings, scrapbooks and other materials
related to the personal life and professional career of anthropologist Weston La Barre. The
collection is arranged into 8 series. The first series,
Personal, contains materials related to La Barre's family, friends,
education, and Navy career during World War II. The next series,
Correspondence, contains extensive chronological files of letters to
and from La Barre's colleagues and friends. Several correspondents were filed by name, including
George Devereux, Allen Ginsberg, Alexander Morin, Richard Evans Schultes, and Howard Stein. The
following series,
Publications, includes articles and books that La Barre wrote during
his long career. It also includes drafts, editing notes, correspondence, and other materials
related to the writings. Next,
Lectures and Addresses includes the text of many speeches La Barre
made across the country, as well as materials related to the conferences and events at which La
Barre spoke.
La Barre's participation in conferences, committees, editing projects, and research is
documented in the
Professional Activities series. The
Duke University series contains teaching materials like tests,
quizzes, and syllabi. It also contains administrative information from the Department of
Anthropology, and a scrapbook and memoir by La Barre recalling the controversy over a possible
Nixon Presidential Library at Duke. The next series,
Audio Recordings, contains a small selection of speeches and music
on anthropological subjects. Finally, the
Scrapbooks series contains a number of scrapbooks documenting La
Barre's travels in the Navy, on anthropological and research voyages, and for vacation. There are
also a large number of scrapbooks in which La Barre appeared to collect clippings of
anthropological or psychological interest.
For several of the series (including Correspondence, Publications, Lectures and Addresses,
Professional Activities, and Duke University), La Barre annotated the folders with comments about
the events, people, and places described within the documents. Because these folders were
physically deteriorating, the comments have been photocopied and placed in the front of the
corresponding file. La Barre also occasionally annotated individual items, apparently years after
the documents were originally created.
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Subject Headings
These and related materials may be accessed under the following subject headings in the
Duke University Libraries online catalog.
- Anthropology.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Anthropology--Religious aspects.
- Anthropology--Research.
- Devereux, George, 1908-
- Duke University. Dept. of Anthropology.
- Duke University--Faculty.
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-
- La Barre, Weston, 1911-
- Morin, Alexander J., 1920-
- Photographs.
- Psychology.
- Psychology and religion.
- Psychotropic drugs.
- Schultes, Richard Evans.
- Scrapbooks.
- Sound recordings.
- Stein, Howard F.
- United States. Navy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--United States.
Related Material
Papers of Raoul Weston La Barre
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian
Institution
Detailed Description of the Collection
Personal, 1930-1988
The Personal series contains an assortment of materials related to La Barre's family,
education, his Navy experience during World War II, job searches, and tributes. Materials are
organized alphabetically.
Correspondence
Family,
1958-1981, undated
Maurine La Barre,
1938-1970
Drawings
Education
Paper, "Kalevala, National Epic of Finland,"
1932
Papers from Princeton,
1930-1932
Papers from Yale,
1933-1937
Senior Thesis, Princeton,
1933
Family Clippings and Documents
Freedom of Information files,
1985-1986
Job Correspondence
1935-1942
1945-1957
Navy Papers,
1943-1955 (3 folders)
Passport,
circa 1930-1940
Photographs
Exhibits (3 folders)
Identified (2 folders)
Unidentified
Weston La Barre Baby Book
Tributes
1969-1986, undated
Festschrift
Notes and Correspondence,
1984-1988
1986
1988
Vita and Bibliography, List of Friends and Acquaintances
Correspondence, 1930-1996
The Correspondence series contains mainly professional correspondence during and after
La Barre's career at Duke. Because La Barre developed close friendships with fellow researchers and
other professionals, much of the material contains personal as well as professional information.
The materials are organized primarily by date in chronological order, but La Barre also collected
the correspondence of certain correspondents separately, and this correspondence follows the yearly
correspondence. It is arranged alphabetically by last name. Among these correspondents are George
Devereux; Allen Ginsberg, the beat poet; Alexander Morin; Richard Evans Schultes; and Howard
Stein.
At some point, La Barre re-read his correspondence and annotated the folders and, in
some cases, individual letters with his summaries and comments on their contents. It is unclear
exactly when these annotations were made. Because the folder annotations contained much information
but were physically deteriorating, photocopies of LaBarre's folder comments have been made and
inserted in the front of the corresponding folders.
Please note: there are two folders of personal correspondence in the Personal series.
These letters are to and from family members, and were filed separately from the bulk of La Barre's
correspondence.
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1930-1945
January 1947-June 1947
July 1947-December 1947
January 1948-June 1948
July 1948-December 1948
January 1949-June 1949
July 1949-December 1949
January 1950-June 1950
July 1950-December 1950
January 1951-June 1951
July 1951-December 1951
January 1952-June 1952
July 1952-December 1952
January 1953-June 1953
July 1953-December 1953
January 1954-June 1954
July 1954-December 1954
January 1955-June 1955
July 1955-December 1955
January 1956-June 1956
July 1956-December 1956
January 1957-June 1957
July 1957-December 1957
January 1958-June 1958
Box 3
July 1958-December 1958
January 1959-June 1959
July 1959-December 1959
January 1960-June 1960
July 1960-December 1960
January 1961-June 1961
July 1961-December 1961
January 1962-June 1962
July 1962-December 1962
January 1963-June 1963
July 1963-December 1963
January 1964-June 1964
July 1964-December 1964
January 1965-June 1965
July 1965-December 1965
January 1966-June 1966
July 1966-December 1966
January 1967-June 1967
July 1967-December 1967
January 1968-June 1968
Box 4
July 1968-December 1968
January 1969-June 1969
July 1969-December 1969
January 1970-June 1970
July 1970-September 1970
October 1970-December 1970
January 1971-June 1971
July 1971-September 1971
October 1971-December 1971
January 1972-June 1972
July 1972-October 1972
November 1972-December 1972
January 1973-April 1973
May 1973-August 1973
September 1973-December 1973
January 1974-June 1974
July 1974-December 1974
January 1975-June 1975
July 1975-September 1975
October 1975-December 1975
Box 5
January 1976-June 1976
July 1976-September 1976
October 1976-December 1976
January 1977-March 1977
April 1977-August 1977
September 1977-December 1977
January 1978-June 1978
July 1978-December 1978
January 1979-June 1979
July 1979-December 1979
January 1980-June 1980
July 1980-December 1980
January 1981-June 1981
July 1981-December 1981
1982
1983
January 1984-June 1984
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July 1984-December 1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
Undated
Banks, E. Pendleton,
1952-1971
Beidelman, T. O.,
1964-1965
Bernheim, Molly,
1972-1980
Bowers, Nancy,
1965-1967
Buettner-Janusch, John,
1965-1972
Cheek, Frances,
1947-1979
Crocker, Chris,
1965-1966
Devereux, George
1945-1960
1961-1973
1974-1985, undated
Dollard, John,
1935-1940
Gay, Peter,
1979-1980
Ginsberg, Allen,
1964-1977
Grottanelli, Count Vinigi,
1965-1980
Janeway, Elizabeth,
1970-1976
Marsh, Robert,
1965
Menninger, Karl
1939-1940
Montagu, Ashley,
1946-1980
Morin, Alexander
1953
Box 7
1954-1956
post
Human Animal,
1956-1959
Schultes, Richard Evans
1936-1940
1948-1980
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur,
1957-1961
Stein, Howard
1975-1978
1979-1980
Stoller, Robert,
1969-1980
Stone, Peter,
1971-1976
Wasson, Robert Gordon,
1950-1980
Publications, 1931-1993
The Publications series contains many of the articles, reviews, and books that La
Barre wrote during his long career. In addition to the final, published versions, La Barre often
kept early drafts, correspondence with publishers, edited manuscripts, and notes. The series begins
with a list of publications compiled in 1992, and follows with three folders of book reviews and
other short publications. The Publications series is then divided into two main subseries: Articles
and Books. La Barre published frequently throughout his career. His articles were published in
scholarly publications as well as the popular press. La Barre frequently kept notes, drafts,
editorial comments, correspondence, and these have been retained. Articles are arranged in
chronological order. The second subseries, Books, is arranged in alphabetical order because many of
La Barre's books were revised and reprinted over a period of years. The Books subseries contains
published editions in addition to drafts, edited manuscripts, and correspondence. In most of the
published editions, La Barre meticulously recorded positive reviews and compliments about the books
given to him by colleagues.
At some point, La Barre re-read his papers and annotated some folders and, in some
cases, individual items with his summaries and comments on their contents. It is unclear exactly
when these annotations were made. Because the folder annotations contained much information but
were physically deteriorating, photocopies of LaBarre's folder comments have been made and inserted
in the front of the corresponding folders.
Box 7
List of Publications,
1992
Book Reviews, Letters to the Editor, Short Communications,
1938-1969
Book Reviews, Letters to the Editor, Short Communications,
1970-1980
Book Reviews,
1981-1988
Articles
Articles are arranged in chronological order.
"In Defense of Alexander Hall: Architecture and
Women,"
January 1931
"Native American Beers,"
1938
"Appeal of Peyote,"
1939
"Psychopathology of Drinking Songs,"
1939
"War and Paranoia,"
1939-1940
"Cultist Drug Addiction,"
1941
"The Uru of Rio Desaguadero,"
1941
"Folk Medicine and Folk Science,"
1942
"Reply to Richard Schultes's 'The Appeal of Peyote,'"
January 1942
"Administrative History of Destroyers, Atlantic
Fleet,"
1945
"Some Observations on Character Structure in the Orient: the
Japanese,"
1945
"Social Cynosure and Social Structure,"
1946
"Some Observations on Character Structure in the Orient: the
Chinese,"
1946
"The Uru-Chipaya,"
1946
"The Cultural Basis of Emotions and Gestures,"
1947
"Kiowa Folk Sciences,"
1947
"Potato Taxonomy Among the Aymara Indians of Bolivia,"
1947
"Primitive Psychology in Native American Cultures: Peyotism
and Confession,"
1947
"Some Observations on Character Structure in the Orient: III.
India,"
1947 (2 folders)
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"The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau,
Bolivia,"
1948
"Cultural Factors in Social Case Work,"
1948
"Columbia University Research in Contemporary
Cultures,"
1948
"Folklore and Psychology,"
1948
"Apperception of Attitudes,"
1949
"Child Care and World Peace,"
1949
"Demands Made Upon the Child by Present Day Culture,"
1949
"Some Observations on Character Structure in the Orient: The
Indians,"
circa 1949
"Wanted: A Pattern for Modern Man,"
1949
"Aymara Folk Tales,"
1950
"Aymara Texts,"
circa 1950
"The Family: Its Functions and Future,"
1950
"Pediatrics, Paranoia, and Peace,"
1950
"Toward World Citizenship,"
1950
"Appraising Today's Pressures on Family Living,"
1951
"Aymara Biologicals and Other Medicines,"
1951
"Family and Symbol,"
1951
"The Family: Fundamentals vs. Filigree,"
1951
"Pediatrics, Paranoia and Peace,"
1951
"Statement on Peyote,"
1951
"Cynosures (points de mire) et structures sociales,"
1953
Letter to Editor of
American Journal of Sociology,
1953
"Maumau,"
circa 1954
"Mobilizing a Man to Do a Job,"
1954
"Strange Patterns of Marriage,"
1954
"Aging as the Anthropologist Sees It,"
1955-1957
"Obscenity: An Anthropological Appraisal,"
1955
"The Relativity of Obscenity,"
1955, 1979
Response to Letter to Editor of
American Anthropologist,
1955
"Self Respect and Mental Maturity,"
1955
"The Social Cell,"
1955
"Professor Widjojo Goes to a Koktel Parti,"
1956
"Racism and Human Biology,"
1956
"Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian,"
1957
"Freud and Anthropology,"
1957
"Mescalism and Peyotism,"
1957
"Queens,"
September 1957
"The Social Worker in Cultural Change,"
1957
"The Influence of Freud on Anthropology,"
1958 (2 folders)
"L'Influence de Freud sur l'ethnographie,"
1958
"The Patient and His Families,"
1958
"Religions, Rorschachs and Tranquilizers,"
1958
"Adolescence: Lesson in History,"
1959
"Architecture, Anthropology, and Style,"
1959
"Arguments from Anthropology,"
1959
"How Adolescent Are Parents?"
1959
"Materia Medica of the Aymara,"
1959
"Religion, Rorschachs, and Tranquilizers,"
1959-1960
"Chapel Hill Psychiatry Textbook,"
1960
"Haring Festschrift,"
1960
"Neurotic Defense Mechanisms in Supernatural
Religion,"
1960
"Relation Between Parents and Children,"
1960
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"Twenty Years of Peyote Studies,"
1960
"Universal Biological Features of the Family,"
1960
"What Linguists Tell Anthropologists,"
1960
"Art and Mythology: the Present State of the Problem,"
1961
"Biosocial Unity of the Family,"
1961
"People are Different,"
1961
"Psychoanalysis in Anthropology,"
1961
"Spier Festschrift,"
1961
"The Well-Disciplined Parent,"
1961
"Architecture, Anthropology, and City Planning,"
1962
"Les relations entre les parents et les enfants,"
1962
"Paralanguage, Kinesics, and Cultural Anthropology,"
1962
"Some Observations on Character in the Orient: The
Japanese,"
1962
"Transference Cures in Religious Cults and Social
Groups,"
1962
Encyclopedia Britannica articles
1963
"Comments on Hockett and Ascher,"
1964
"Confession as Cathartic Therapy in American Indian
Tribes,"
1964
"The Diabolic Root,"
1964
"The Language of Emotion and Gesture,"
1964
"The Narcotic Complex of the New World,"
1964
"OAR/SORO Report,"
1964
"Paralinguistics, Kinesics, and Cultural
Anthropology,"
1964
"The Snake Handling Cult of the American Southeast,"
1964
UNESCO Dictionary articles,
1964
"Aymara Folklore and Folk Temperament,"
1965
"'The Worm in the Honeysuckle': A Case Study of a Child's
Hysterical Blindness,"
1965
"The Aymara: History and Worldview,"
1966
"Die Kulturelle Grundlage von Emotionen und Gesten,"
1966
"The Dream, the Charisma, and the Culture-Hero,"
1966
"Geza Roheim,"
1966
"The Lessons of Anthropology for Urban Design,"
1966
"Some Comments Concerning Hockett and Ascher's The Human
Revolution,"
1966
"Le reve, le charisme et le herosculturel,"
1967
Preface to Devereux's
From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences,
1967
"The Trouble with Young People Nowadays Is . . .,"
1967
"Article on Ethnopsychology,"
1968-1971
"Comments on Hall's Proxemics,"
1968
"Normal Adolescence: Its Dynamics and Impact,"
1968
"Personality from a Psychoanalytic Viewpoint,"
1968
"Adolescence, the Crucible of Change,"
1969
"Movements religieux d'acculturation en Amerique du
Nord,"
1969
"The Triple Crisis: Adolescence, Early Marriage, and
Parenthood,"
1969
"Drug Anthology,"
circa 1970-1971
"Drug Anthology"
correspondence
circa 1970-1971
"Old and New World Narcotics: A Statistical Question and an
Ethnological Reply,"
1970
Review of Wasson's
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality,
1970
"Anthropological Perspectives on Sexuality,"
1971
"Authority, Culture Change and the Courts,"
1971-1972
"I Narcotici Del Nuevo Mondo Autoctano,"
1971
Introduction to
Anthropology Today,
1971
"Materials for a History of Studies of Crisis Cults: A
Bibliographic Essay,"
1971
"North American Peoples and Cultures"
1971
Review of Watson's
Proxemic Behavior,
1971
"Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion,"
1972
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"Non-domesticated plants: uses in medicine and
ritual,"
1972
"The Development of Mind in Man in Primitive Cultures and
Society,"
1973
"Life Cycle and Initiation Rites,"
1973
"American Religions,"
1974
Biology and Language article,
1974
Comments on de Rios's
"The Influence of Psychotropic Flora and Fauna on Maya
Religion,"
1974
"Anthropological Perspectives on Hallucination and
Hallucinogens,"
1975
Foreward to Stein and Hill's
The Ethnic Imperative: A Study of the White Ethnic
Movement,
1977
Letter to the Editor of the
Journal of Psychedielic Drugs,
1977
"A Retort Courteous,"
1977
Review of Rubin's
"Cannabis and Culture,"
1977
"Freudian Biology, Magic, and Religion,"
1978
"Hysteria and Psychopathy,"
1978
Letter to Editor of
Journal of Psychohistory,
1978
The Making of Psychological Anthropology,
1978
"Psychoanalysis and the Biology of Religion,"
1978
"Academic Graffiti,"
1979
"Closed Eyes While Kissing,"
1979
"Devereux Festschrift,"
1979
Foreward to Spiro's
Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited,
1979
"Peyotl and Mescaline,"
1979
"Psychedelics Galore,"
1979
"Shamanic Origins of Religion and Medicine,"
1979
Comments on Ferro Luzzi's
"The Female Lingam,"
1980
"Countertransference and the Beatniks,"
1980
Letter to the Editor of
Southern Anthropologist,
1980
Preface to Devereux's
De L'Augoisse A La Methode,
1980
"Three Contributions to the Delinquency of Science and
Literature,"
1980
"'Tribe-Oriented' Anthropologists Missing the Larger
Point?"
1980
"Two Etymons and a Query,"
1982-1984
"Ethnobotony in American Anthropology,"
1983-1987
"Charley Charcoal: the Autobiogrpahy of a Kiowa
Indian"
correspondence,
1985-1986
"A Job on Blow,"
circa 1985
"Mozart's 'Magic Flute' as a Parable of Normal
Adolescence,"
1985
"George Devereux: In Memoriam,"
1987
"Neoteny and Religion,"
circa 1987
"My Friend Gordon,"
1988
"Old and New World Hallucinogens,"
1988
"Importance of Ethnobotany in American Anthropology,"
1992
"Aymara Texts,"
undated
"Lecturer's Reply to Discussants"
(La Barre's reply to
Schlesinger), undated
Books
Books are arranged in alphabetical order because many of La Barre's books were
revised and reprinted over a period of years.
The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau,
Bolivia, American Anthropological Association,
1948
Culture in Context: Selected Writings of Weston La Barre
First edition, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,
1980
Notes and Correspondence,
1975-1980
Correspondence,
1979-1984
Correspondence,
1993
The Ghost Dance
First edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1970
Unused Chapters
Chapter 7, Death in the Old Stone Age
Chapter 8, The Seat of Life
Chapter 9, The Immortal One
Chapter 14, The Beast God
Chapter 15, The Totemic Gods
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Chapter 16, The Dying God
Chapter 17, The Battle of the Gods
Chapter 18, The Murdered God
Paul and Christianity
Eighteenth Century Rationalism
Nineteenth Century Romanticism
Twentieth Century Secular Religions
Miscellaneous
Correspondence and Corrections,
1970-1972
Waveland Paperback edition correspondence,
1989-1990
The Human Animal
First edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1954
French edition, Paris: Payot,
1956
The Fallen Ape (Version 1 of
The Human Animal),
1950
Family and Symbol: A Psychoanalytic Theory of
Anthropology (Version 2 of
The Human Animal),
1951
The Human Animal: A Naturalistic Study of Man
(Version 3 of
The Human Animal),
1952 (2 folders)
Drafts (5 folders)
Correspondence,
1954-1963 (3 folders)
Box 12
L'Animal Humain (French edition) correspondence,
1956
The Human Animal (Italian edition) correspondence,
1979
Correspondence,
circa 1990-1992
Permissions and Legal Matters,
1953-1972
Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition About Sexuality
First edition, New York: Columbia University Press,
1984
Author's copy
Master copy
Corrected Original
Correspondence,
1982-1985 (2 folders)
Correspondence,
1990
Correspondence,
1990
The Peyote Cult
First edition, New Haven: Yale University Press,
1938
Second edition, enlarged, The Shoe String Press, Inc.,
1970
Fifth edition, enlarged, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press,
1989
Spanish edition,
El Culto Del Peyote, Mexico: Premia Editora,
1980
Correspondence,
1936-1956
Correspondence,
circa 1949-1962
Notes and Correspondence,
circa 1979
Oklahoma edition, notes and edits,
circa 1988
Xerox of Oklahoma edition and notes,
circa 1988
Oklahoma edition, notes and correspondence,
1987-1988
Survey of Peyote Studies,
1963-1973
Spanish edition, correspondence,
1970-1979
Preface to 5th edition,
1989
Miscellany
Shadow of Childhood: Neoteny and the Biology of Religion
First edition, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press,
1991
Box 13
Edited manuscript (2 folders)
De Vos Lectures in Psychoanalytic Anthropology xerox,
undated
Correspondence, 1989-1992 (2 folders
They Shall Take Up Serpents
First edition, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press,
1962
Paperback reissue, Waveland Press, Inc.,
1992
Early drafts
Manuscript, 1957 and undated (6 folders)
Corrected carbon, fifth version, Minnesota (2 folders)
Correspondence with rejecting publishers,
1956-1959
Notes, correspondence, photos,
circa 1948-1973
Photographs, circa
1948
Notes and correspondence, 1957-1961
Editorial correspondence,
1959-1963, 1991
Documents regarding Colonel Hartman Bunn (Robinson Everett),
1961
Correspondence,
circa 1991
Lectures and Addresses, 1936-1986
The Lectures and Addresses series begins with a "List of Major Lectures" and a
collection of 1960s-era programs and clippings. The bulk of the series, however, contains the text
of La Barre's speeches, as well as correspondence and other materials related to the speech. The
Lectures and Addresses series is arranged chronologically by the date each speech was given.
Occasionally, La Barre gave the same speech over a number of years. In that case, folders are filed
by their earliest date, but the date range of the folder contents are provided.
At some point, La Barre re-read his papers and annotated some folders and, in some
cases, individual items with his summaries and comments on their contents. It is unclear exactly
when these annotations were made. Because the folder annotations contained much information but
were physically deteriorating, photocopies of LaBarre's folder comments have been made and inserted
in the front of the corresponding folders.
Box 13
List of Major Lectures,
1946-1984, undated (2 folders)
Programs and Clippings,
circa 1960-1969
"Erotization of Body Parts in Various Cultures,"
Yale
Anthropology Club,
circa 1936-1937
"Alcoholism and the Psychopathology of Drinking Songs,"
Evening Staff Meeting, Menninger Clinic,
circa 1938-1939
"Education and Democracy,"
Institute for Social
Caseworkers, University of Wisconsin,
August 1947
"Religion and Psychiatry,"
Topeka,
circa 1939
"Some Observations on Japanese Character Structure,"
circa 1943
Man as Animal Speeches,
circa 1948
Box 14
"A Comparative Look at Marriage,"
13th Annual Groves
Conference on Conservation of Marriage and the Family,
April 24, 1950-April 26, 1950
"An Anthropologist Looks at the Family,"
Atlanta,
Georgia,
February 9, 1951
"How Cultural Patterns Influence People,"
Tampa,
Florida,
May 8, 1952
"Predicaments of Modern Men,"
Chattanooga,
March 18, 1953
"Family in American Life,"
Kalamazoo,
April 6, 1954
Human Ecology Lectures:
"Human Biology"
and
"Human Culture,"
UNC Medical School,
1955
"Human Biology and Human Nature,"
Purdue,
February 8, 1955
"Why Parents Don't Understand Their Children,"
Cornelian
Corner lecture, Detroit,
November 4, 1955
"Changing Attitudes toward Older People in Ancient and
Primitive Societies,"
February 7, 1956
Croatan and Robeson Indians,
circa 1956-1957
"Religion and Mental Health,"
Detroit,
March 14, 1957
"Social Work as a Factor in Producing Change,"
National
Conference for Social Welfare, Philadelphia,
May 20, 1957
Washington-Baltimore Institute Speech,
October 25, 1957
Dartmouth Medical School,
1957
"A Naturalistic Approach to the Study of Religion,"
American Anthropological Association, Chicago,
1957
"And They Shall Take Up Serpents,"
Roheim Lecture, New
York,
December 4, 1958
"Cultural Methods of Dealing with Anxiety,"
Kalamazoo,
circa 1958
Indianapolis,
March 26, 1959-March 27, 1959
"Time, Culture, and Style,"
New Orleans,
June 21, 1959
"Adolescence and Anthropology,"
Child Study Association
of America,
1959
Pittsburgh Institute,
1959
"Method
in Culture and Personality Studies,"
Lansing,
Michigan,
November 2, 1959-November 3, 1959
"The Changing Fabric of American Life,"
Texas Social
Welfare Association, Houston, Texas,
November 15, 1959
Pittsburgh speeches,
1960
Los Angeles-San Francisco,
March 30, 1960-April 6, 1960
"Self Respect and Mental Maturation,"
Virginia Council
on Social Welfare, Roanoke,
April 27, 1961
"Parent-Children Relationships,"
Family and Child
Service, Erie, Pennsylvania,
May 1, 1961
Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi,
May 7, 1961-May 12, 1961
"A General Theory of Deculturation and Mass Autism,"
American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia,
November 16, 1961
School of Social Work, William and Mary College, Richmond, Virginia,
December 1961-January 1962
"Architecture, Anthropology, and City Planning,"
Institute of Government,
February 2, 1962
"The Family: Foundation of Social Forms,"
Associated
Family and Child Service Agency, Winston-Salem,
March 12, 1962
Grand Tour,
Spring 1962
Indianapolis trip,
May 1962
Gainesville, Florida,
October 9, 1963-October 12, 1963
Bucknell University,
November 4, 1963
National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, Washington, DC,
April 23, 1964
"Culture, Charisma, and Culture Hero,"
Seventh
InternationalCongress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Moscow,
August 3, 1964-August 10, 1964
"The Pronoun God and the Soul as Hot Air,"
Indiana
Lecture,
November 8, 1964
March 1965-August 1965
National Science Foundation lectures, East Carolina University, Greenville,
NC, Kalamazoo,
April 1, 1965-April 2, 1965
"The Search for Pattern,"
Michigan State and Upjohn,
East Lansing, Michigan,
June 5, 1965
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
April 1966
Columbus, OH,
November 19, 1967-November 22, 1967
Florence Crittendon Association of America, Wilmington, Delaware,
October 10, 1968
"The Snake-Handling Sect of the Southeast,"
Kalamazoo,
January 11, 1969
"Family in American Life,"
Kalamazoo,
April 6, 1954
American College of Psychiatry, New Orleans,
January 30, 1969-February 2, 1969
Hoffmann-La Roche Lecture, Nova Scotia,
June 25, 1969-June 27, 1969
Dallas,
September 11, 1969
"How and Why History Happens,"
Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, Texas,
March 18, 1970
Albuquerque-Los Angeles-San Francisco-Philadelphia-New
York-Madison-Washington,
April 3, 1970-April 14, 1970
"Authority, Culture, Change, and the Courts,"
Fifth
Circuit Court,, Hollywood, Florida,
May 26, 1970-May 29, 1970
Piedmont Universities,
December 6, 1971-December 8, 1971
Simmel-Fenichel Lectures, Los Angeles,
November 15, 1973-November 16, 1973
Earlham College,
February 21, 1974
West Carolina University,
April 24, 1975
Bemrose-La Barre program
"Ideas,"
Toronto, Canada,
November 1975
"Psychoanalysis and the Biology of Religion,"
American
Anthropological Association, Washington, DC,
1976
"The Nature of Human Nature: An Anthropological
Interpretation,"
Lynchburg College Senior Symposium,
February 8, 1977
"Changing Attitudes in Primitive and Ancient Societies,"
Cumberland County Senior Roundtable, Fayetteville, NC,
September 15, 1977
"The Human Animal Revisited with Some Remarks on
Snakehandling,"
Earlham College,
November 2, 1977
De Vos Lectures, Berkeley, California,
1986
De Vos Lectures, Correspondence,
March 20, 1986-March 27, 1986
"Human Biology and the Supernatural,"
circa 1986
Professional Activities, 1935-1982
La Barre had many interests in the field of anthropology and psychology, and was
involved in committee and conference work throughout his career. This series contains four
subseries: Committees, Conferences, Landmarks in Anthropology, and Research. The Committees and
Conferences subseries are arranged alphabetically. The Landmarks in Anthropology subseries contains
records from La Barre's editorship of the Landmarks in Anthropology series, which reprinted
important anthropologial writings. The Research subseries has some information on grants and
fellowships that La Barre received, as well as two folders of photographs which date from the
mid-to-late 1930s and early 1940s. All of La Barre's field notes were donated to the Smithsonian
Institution's National Anthropological Collection before La Barre donated the rest of his materials
to Duke University.
At some point, La Barre re-read his papers and annotated some folders and, in some
cases, individual items with his summaries and comments on their contents. It is unclear exactly
when these annotations were made. Because the folder annotations contained much information but
were physically deteriorating, photocopies of LaBarre's folder comments have been made and inserted
in the front of the corresponding folders.
Box 14
Committees
American Orthopsychiatric Association Committee on the Problems of
Minority Groups,
1960-1961
Editorial Advisory Board of
Law and Contemporary Problems,
1958-1959
Geriatrics Research,
1954-1956
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP)
"Adolescence and Authority" Report,
1966-1972
"Adolescence and Authority" Report, undated
Box 15
Committee on Adolescence,
1960-1962
Committee on Adolescence,
1962-1969, undated
National Institutes of Mental Health,
1958
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Panels
1957-1958
1960-1963
Conferences
American Anthropological Association
New Orleans,
1973
Mexico City,
1974
San Francisco,
1975
American Psychoanalytic Association,
1977
Hallucinogens in Native American Shamanism and Modern Life,
1978, undated
Meeting of the Study Group on Normal Humans of the American College of
Neuropsychopharmacology,
1970
San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society,
March 1978
Smithsonian Drug Conference,
1972
Social Security Administration Meeting,
1960
Yale Conference on Bolivia,
1942
Young Presidents' Organization,
1972
Landmarks in Anthropology
Correspondence
1963-1965
1966-1968
1969-1971
Series information
Research
Guggenheim Fellowship,
1946-1947
Kiowa Indians field trip photographs,
June 1935-August 1935
Guggenheim Fellowship,
1946-1947
National Science Foundation grants,
1962-1966
Rockefeller Foundation grant,
1982
Duke University, circa 1948-1979
The Duke University series contains materials related to La Barre's teaching career,
participation in the faculty and administration of the Anthropology Department, and his interest in
the Nixon Presidential Library controversy. The Teaching subseries contains quizzes, exams,
syllabi, and other documents that La Barre used in teaching anthropology courses at Duke. It also
contains information about him becoming a James B. Duke Professor, and a retirement letter he sent
to all of his former students, as well as their replies. The Anthropology Department subseries
contains information about staff meetings, department courses, and general administrative
information. The Nixon Controversy subseries includes a scrapbook of clippings gathered during the
debate over whether to place Nixon's Presidential Library at Duke. It also contains a memoir of
personal recollections of that time written by La Barre.
At some point, La Barre re-read his papers and annotated some folders and, in some
cases, individual items with his summaries and comments on their contents. It is unclear exactly
when these annotations were made. Because the folder annotations contained much information but
were physically deteriorating, photocopies of LaBarre's folder comments have been made and inserted
in the front of the corresponding folders.
Box 15
Teaching
Anthropology Final Exams--Study Copies (2 folders)
Anthropology Quizzes
Archeology, Prehistory, and Paleontology
Cultural Anthropology
Culture and Personality
Examinations, study guides, and other materials
General Anthropology
Human Biology and Physical Anthropology
James B. Duke Professorship,
1969-1970
Linguistics
Marriage and the Family Quizzes
Peoples of the World - Miscellany
Primitive Art
Primitive Music
Primitive Religion
Box 16
Quizzes in General Anthropology
Retirement letter to former students,
1976-1978
Selected Examinations and Quizzes in Anthropology
Anthropology Department
General Files,
1959-1964
General Files,
1965-1970
General Files,
1971-1975, undated
Brochures,
circa 1960-1979
Courses,
1948-1976
Staff Meetings
1946-1967
1968-1969
1970-1975
Visiting Lecturers' Announcements
circa 1967-1976
Box 21
Nixon Controversy
La Barre Memoir
Newspaper History of the Proposal to Bring the Nixon Library Papers to
Duke University
Audio Recordings
The Audio Recordings series is a small collection of what appear to be homemade
recordings of music and lectures about anthropological topics. All of the recordings were made on
1/4 inch audio tape on 7 inch reels, and appear to be the master copies. Listening copies must be
made prior to use; please contact University Archives for more information.
Box 16
"Baluba Tribe Music"
"Folk Music and Psychiatry (Drs. Spradlin and Mallory);
Reverse: Labarre on Folktales and Limericks"
"Narcotics Lecture #1"
"Narcotics Lecture #2"
"Primitive Music #1"
"Primitive Music #2"
"S.F. State: Human Biology"
"Worm in the Honeysuckle,"
1961
Scrapbooks
The Scrapbooks series includes a variety of scrapbooks created by LaBarre. Some of the
scrapbooks were collections of clippings saved by La Barre due to their anthropological or
psychological interest. Some of the scrapbooks, including the "Ceylon," "Navy," and "China-India"
volumes date from La Barre's service in World War II, and contain a number of original photographs.
Other scrapbooks seem to be travel diaries, and include handwritten notes, ticket stubs,
photographs, clippings, and other materials collected on his journies. La Barre also collected
reviews and advertisements about his own books, and these materials were also pasted into
scrapbooks. For this series, those books that had a title or obvious theme have been identified as
such; those books that appeared to be a mix of subjects are classified as "Untitled."
Box 17
Navy-era diary and notes,
circa 1942-1945
Europe travel diaries (3)
"Psychiatry Notebook" (containing clippings)
Italy and Greece travel scrapbook
Greece, Israel, and Western Europe travel scrapbook
"'Anthropologists,' collected by La Barre" scrapbook (containing
clippings)
"Weston La Barre" scrapbook (containing clippings and reprints by and about
La Barre)
Box 18
"Weston's European Trips"
"Ceylon" scrapbook (containing clippings, photographs, and
souvenirs)
"Navy" scrapbook (containing clippings, photographs, and
souvenirs)
"China-India" scrapbook (containing clippings, photographs, and
souvenirs)
"Collections Made by Weston La Barre" scrapbook (inventory of artifacts and
artwork)
La Barre books scrapbooks
Culture in Context
Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance, Volume II
Human Animal
Human Animal/They Shall Take Up Serpents
Muelos
Box 19
Shadow of Childhood
They Shall Take Up Serpents
5 untitled scrapbooks
Box 20
7 untitled scrapbooks
