The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau, Bolivia

La Barre, Weston, The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau, Bolivia, Issue 68 of Memoirs, American Anthropological Association, 1948.

Reviewed in Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana (1937-1948) © 1948.

Raoul Weston La Barre (13 December 1911–March 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.
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He published The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau and They Shall Take up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snake-handling Cult, which are regarded as landmark studies of indigenous peoples in the Amazon and the extremist culture of Christian fundamentalism lurking in the urban and rural landscapes of contemporary America.