Cannibalism Is an Acquired Taste: And Other Notes : From Conversations With Anthropologist Omer C. Stewart

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by  Carol L. Howell

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Cannibalism Is an Acquired Taste
and Other Notes
From Conversations With Anthropologist
OMER C. STEWART
Compiled and Edited by Carol L. Howell
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO

Cannibalism Is an Acquired Taste : And
title: Other Notes From Conversations With
Anthropologist Omer C. Stewart
author: Howell, Carol L.; Stewart, Omer Call
publisher: University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin: 0870814745
print isbn13: 9780870814747
ebook isbn13: 9780585028552
language: English
Stewart, Omer Call,--1908- ,
Anthropologists--Colorado--Biography,
subject Indians of North America--Religion,
Peyotism--United States, Applied
anthropology--United States.
publication date: 1998
lcc: GN21.S85H68 1998eb
ddc: 301/.092
Stewart, Omer Call,--1908- ,
Anthropologists--Colorado--Biography,
subject: Indians of North America--Religion,
Peyotism--United States, Applied
anthropology--United States.
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Howell, Carol L.
Cannibalism is an acquired taste: and other notes from conversations
with anthropologist Omer C. Stewart / compiled and edited by Carol
L. Howell.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87081-474-5 (hard cover: alk. paper)
1. Stewart, Omer Call, 1908- . 2. AnthropolotgistsColorado
Biography. 3. Indians of North America-Religion. 4. Peyotism-
United States. 5. Applied anthropologyUnited States.
I. Stewart, Omer Call, 1908- . II. Title.
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
Chapter One: A Boyhood Revisited 6
Recounting the experiences and lessons of youth
Chapter Two: Science and Religion 20
A doctrine that inspired the individual
Chapter Three: The Appeal of Anthropology 26
The influence of Julian Steward and A. L. Kroeber, and
the Culture Elements Survey
Chapter Four: Messages From the Field 42
Letters from 1937
Chapter Five: The Peyote Religion 77
The perspective of a participant-observer
Chapter Six: Anthropology in Fact and in Theory 89
The diffusion of a religious complex, multiple religious
beliefs, and the process of acculturation
Chapter Seven: Exploring the History of Peyotism 98
A brief history of the religion, research methods, and the
obligation to appear as an expert witness
Chapter Eight: Postdoctoral Training 108
A much sought-after research grant came with a series
of unusual problems
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Chapter Nine: Applying Anthropology in Boulder, 127
Colorado
Addressing prejudice against minorities, and prejudice
against anthropologists.
Chapter Ten: Other Major Interests 141
Alcoholism and the Tri-Ethnic Project
The Impact of Intentional Burning
Indian Claims Cases and Applied Ethnogeography
Chapter Eleven: The Evolution of Applied Anthropology 167
Chapter Twelve: In Memory of Omer C. Stewart 180
Vita, Omer C. Stewart 187
Bibliography 191
Omer C. Stewart 191
Other References 200
Index 211
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List of llustrations
Omer C. Stewart, 1909 7
Omer C. Stewart, 1915 8
The Stewart Family, 1918 9
Omer C. Stewart, 1925 10
Omer C. Stewart 1928 astride bicycle 14
O. C. Stewart during mission in Switzerland, October 1929 16
Promontory Point cave excavation, 1932 29
Omer Stewart, the Rainbow BridgeMonument Valley 30
Expedition, 1933
Omer Stewart, 1936 39
Lenore Stewart, 1936 40
The Stewarts's first home, 1936 43
White Rocks, Utah, 1937 55
Peyote Tepee, Ibapah, Utah, 1937 56
O. C. Stewart, with San Juan Southern Paiute donkeys, 72
December 26-31, 1937
Omer C. Stewart, December 1937 73
A. L. Kroeber in his Berkeley office, 1939 76
Peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsil) 80
Washo and Northern Paiute Indians following a peyote 83
meeting, July 1938
Herbert Stacher with "Bishop" John Taylor, January 1938 86
Herbert Stacher with his wife, January 1938 87
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Omer Stewart demonstrating peyote ritual equipment, 102
October 1948
Native American Church Building, Denver, Colorado, 103
1971
O. C. Stewart with Robert Lowie, Berkeley, 1940 109
Winnowing wild rice, 1940 119
Captain Omer C. Stewart, U. S. Army, 1943 124
Lenore, Ann, and Steve Stewart, 1943 125
Omer and Lenore Stewart celebrating the end of World 126
War II, August 1945.
Omer C. Stewart, 1946 138
Omer with grandson Charlie, July 1990. 183
Rock walls 185
One of his last lectures on the peyote religion, February 186
1989