Note 23 — APPENDIX 6: PHYSIOLOGY OF PEYOTE

Field workers protest privately, but not often enough explicitly, against the projection of these culturally- and personally-subjective values into other cultures. The envisaging of primitive cultures as unspoiled Arcadias where one’s frustrated dreams for one’s own culture come true, is at least as old as Tacitus’ “Germania,” and is still going on, not alone among laymen.