Consuming Habits : Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs

, by Goodman, Jordan; Sherratt, Andrew; Lovejoy, Paul E.

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ISBN: 9780203964118 | 020396411X
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Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of civilizations, the definition of cultural identities, and the growth of the world economy. The labelling of these substances as 'legal' or 'illegal' has diverted attention away from understanding their important cultural and historical roles. This collection explores the rich analytical category of psychoactive substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives.

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List of figures and tables	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: peculiar substances	p. 1
Alcohol and its alternatives: symbol and substance in pre-industrial cultures	p. 11
Coca, beer, cigars and yage: meals and anti-meals in an Amerindinian community	p. 46
Nicotian dreams: the prehistory and early history of tobacco in eastern North America	p. 65
Betelnut 'bisnis' and cosmology: a view from Papua New Guinea	p. 86
Kola nuts: the 'coffee' of the central Sudan	p. 98
Excitantia: or, how enlightenment Europe took to soft drugs	p. 121
From coffeehouse to parlour: the consumption of coffee, tea and sugar in north-western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	p. 142
Tobacco use and tobacco taxation: a battle of interests in early modern Europe	p. 158
Globalizing ganja: the British Empire and international cannabis traffic c. 1834 to c. 1939	p. 178
Japan and the world narcotics traffic	p. 194
The rise and fall and rise of cocaine in the United States	p. 215
Building castles of spit: the role of khat in work, ritual and leisure	p. 238
Afterword	p. 255
Selected bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 269
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Consuming Habits : Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs

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