Weston La Barre

Weston La Barre
La Barre in 1954
Born13 December 1911 (1911-12-13)
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died13 March 1996 (1996-03-14) (aged 84)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.

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.

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