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Drugs and Alcohol in the Pacific: New Consumption Trends and Their Consequences

Author(s): Gamella, Juan F.
ISBN10: 0754601536
ISBN13: 9780754601531
Cover: Hardcover
 
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vi
General Editor's Preface xi
Introduction xv
PART ONE---THE INDIGENOUS BASE
Antiquity of the Use of New World Hallucinogens
1(14)
Richard Evans Schultes
Psychoactive Substances of the South Seas: Betel, Kava and Pituri
15(6)
John Cawte
Peyotism, 1521-1891
21(30)
J.S. Slotkin
Russian Use of Amanita muscaria: A Footnote to Wasson's Soma
51(6)
Ethel Dunn
PART TWO---TOBACCO
The Introduction of Tobacco into Japan
57(24)
Ernest M. Satow
Early Prohibitions of Tobacco in China and Manchuria
81(10)
L. Carrington Goodrich
Tobacco, Culture, and Health among American Indians: A Historical Review
91(22)
Christina M. Pego
Robert F. Hill
Glenn W. Solomon
Robert M. Chisholm
Suzanne E. Ivey
PART THREE---OPIUM
Opium Smoking in Ch'ing China
113(32)
Jonathan Spence
Speculations on the Nature and Pattern of Opium Smoking
145(10)
John C. Kramer
Opium in Java: A Sinister Friend
155(12)
James R. Rush
The Opium Trade in Szechwan, 1881 to 1911
167(8)
S.A.M. Adshead
Reform, Nationalism and Internationalism: The Opium Suppression Movement in China and the Anglo-American Influence, 1900-1908
175(42)
Thomas D. Reins
PART FOUR---GOCA-COCAINE
Inca and Colonial Settlement, Coca Cultivation and Endemic Disease in the Tropical Forest
217(18)
Daniel W. Gade
Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes
235(18)
Joseph A. Gagliano
America's First Cocaine Epidemic: What Did We Learn?
253(14)
David F. Musto
PART FIVE---ALCOHOL
Opening Pandora's Bottle: Reconstructing Micronesians' Early Contacts with Alcoholic Beverages
267(26)
Mac Marshall
Leslie B. Marshall
Drinking, Popular Protest, and Governmental Response in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Latin America
293(18)
John E. Kicza
Malhiot's Journal: An Ethnohistoric Assessment of Chippewa Alcohol Behavior in the Early Nineteenth Century
311(24)
Jack O. Waddell
Alcohol in Chinese Poems: References to Drunkenness, Flushing, and Drinking
335(36)
Julia Lee
``A Battle Not Man's But God's'': Origins of the American Temperance Crusade in the Struggle for Religious Authority
371(12)
Laura A. Schmidt
Index 383

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