Page iii 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. Page iv Copyright © 1998 by the University Press of Colorado International Standard Book Number 0-87081-474-5 Published by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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. GN21.S85H68 1998 301 '.092dc21 97-47351 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Page v 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 Page vi 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 Page vii 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 Page viii 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