Stacy B. Schaefer
Stacy B. Schaefer is a professor emerita of anthropology at California State University, Chico. She has worked in research, curatorial, and educational capacities at a number of California museums. The coeditor of People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival (UNM Press), her current research includes ethnographic fieldwork among the indigenous peoples of Chile and Bolivia and in the borderlands of South Texas.
Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas
Schaefer’s book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew.
- Copyright year: 2015
Huichol Women, Weavers, and Shamans
"A beautiful ethnographic work. Schaefer deftly relates mythology, cosmology, family life, and economics within the spiritual practice and mechanics of weaving. There is clearly a preservation ethos underlying Schaefer’s work, yet her depiction is not mournful, it is celebratory."—Ethnohistory
- Copyright year: 2002
People of the Peyote
Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival
The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.
- Copyright year: 1997