Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Weston La Barre

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American anthropologist Weston La Barre.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Weston La Barre

Raoul Weston La Barre (1911-1996) was an American anthropologist, best known for his work in ethnobotany, particularly with regard to Native-American religion, and for his application of psychiatric and psychoanalytic theories to ethnography.

We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs. — © Weston La Barre
We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.
Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.
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