Quote of the day
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Weston La Barre

Born: December 13, 1911
Died: March 13, 1996 (aged 84)
Bio: Raoul Weston La Barre 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.
Known for:
- Peyote cult (1938)
- The Ghost Dance (1970)
- The Human Animal (1954)
- Shadow of childhood (1991)