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Peter T. Furst (1922-2015) was a cultural anthropologist, college professor, and researcher. He worked predominantly with pre-Hispanic, indigenous Mexican, and Native American cultures with a focus on ethnobotany and shamanism.

Biography
Born in Cologne, Germany, Furst came to America during WWII, and worked as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. After the war, Furst returned to California, where he filmed a television series for ABC, which won him the Peabody Award in 1959. He received his PhD in anthropology in 1966, and became a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles shortly thereafter.

He then worked as a Director of the UCLA Center for Latin American Studies, eventually leaving Los Angeles to join the Anthropology Department at State University of New York, Albany. He retired in 1987, becoming a Professor Emeritus and research associate at the University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 1999, Furst moved to Santa Fe to work as a research associate at the State Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

Furst was the author of many books, publishing primarily indigenous Mesoamerican history, art, and culture, as well as shamanistic cultural practices and Native North American art. His dissertation, "Shaft Tombs, Shell Trumpets, and Shamanism," remains an important study on pre-Hispanic West Mexican history, art, and culture. Also, his research and work with the Huichol people in Northwest Mexico resulted in a new artistic medium for the culture, known as Huichol yarn painting. A collection of over 78,000 photographs taken and collected by Furst was donated to the University of New Mexico.

Books and articles
MacLean, Hope, and Peter T. Furst. 2012. The Shaman's Mirror: Visionary Art of the Huichol. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Furst, Peter T. 2011. Portals of Transformation: Mezcala Temples. Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc.

Gillett Good Griffin, Peter T. Furst. 2008. Sculpture and Cosmology in Ancient Guerrero. ed. Curnoe, Jessica. Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc.

Furst, Peter T. and Joanne Stuhr. 2008. Ritual beauty: Art of the Ancient Americas. University of Arizona Museum of Art: Tucson, Arizona

Furst, Peter T. and José Benítez Sánchez. 2007. Visions of a Huichol Shaman. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Philadelphia.

Furst, Peter T. 2006. Rock Crystals and Peyote Dreams: Explorations in the Huichol Universe. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City.

Furst, Peter T., and Vincent Bardet. 2000. Le peyotl chez les Indiens huicholes du Mexique. Paris: L'Esprit frappeur.

Furst, Peter T., and José Agustín Ramírez Gómez. 1992. Los alucinógenos y la cultura. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Furst, Peter T. 1990. Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.

Furst, Peter T. 1986. Mushrooms, Psychedelic Fungi. Encyclopedia of psychoactive drugs series. Chelsea House Publishers: New York.

Furst, Peter T. and Jill Leslie McKeever Furst. 1982. North American Indian Art. Artpress.

Furst, Peter T. 1981''. Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon: Gold and Emerald Treasures of Colombia. Natural History Museum Alliance of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, California.''

Furst, Peter T. 1978. The Ninth Level: Funerary Art from Ancient Mesoamerica: Selections from the Gerald and Hope Solomons Collection. University of Iowa Museum of Art: Iowa City, Iowa.

Furst, Peter T. 1976. Hallucinogens and Culture. Chandler & Sharp.

Furst, Peter T. 1975. "House of Darkness and House of Light: Sacred Functions of West Mexican Funerary Art." Death and the Afterlife in pre-Columbian America. Seiten 33-68.

Furst, Peter T. 1974. Stones, Bones & Skin: Ritual and Shamanic Art. Toronto: Society for Art Publ.

Furst, Peter T. 1974. Hallucinogens in Precolumbian Art. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech Press.

Furst, Peter T. 1974. Archaeological Evidence for Snuffing in Prehispanic México. Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University (24) 1.

Furst, Peter T. 1972. Symbolism and Psychopharmacology: The Toad as Earth Mother in Indian America. Mexico: Sociedad mexicana de antropologia.

Furst, Peter T., and Salomón Nahmad Sitton. 1972. Mitos y arte huicholes. México, D.F.: Secretaría de Educación Pública.

Furst, Peter T. and Karen B. Reed. 1970. Stranger in Our Midst: Guided Culture Change in Highland Guatemala. Washington, D.C.: Peace Corps.

Furst, Peter T. 1968. The Parching of the Maize: An Essay on the Survival of Huichol Ritual. Wien: Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität.

Furst, Peter T. and Barbara G. Myerhoff. 1966. "Myth as History: The Jimson Weed Cycle of the Huichols of Mexico." Antropológica 17.

Furst, Peter T. 1966. Shaft Tombs, Shell Trumpets and Shamanism: A Culture-historical Approach to Problems in West Mexican Archaeology. (Dissertation) University of California, Los Angeles.

Films
To Find Our Life: The Peyote Hunt of the Huichols of Mexico. 2011. Directed by Peter T. Furst. Latin American Center, University of California, Los Angeles.

El Peyote. 1969. Directed by Peter T. Furst.