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Drug use and cultural contexts 'beyond the West' : tradition, change and post-colonialism / edited by Ross Coomber and Nigel South.

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  1. Drug use and cultural contexts 'beyond the West' : tradition, change and post-colonialism / edited by Ross Coomber and Nigel South.
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  1. [England] : Free Association Books, 2004.

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Additional authors
  1. Coomber, Ross
  2. South, Nigel
Description
  1. 219 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "This book examines drug use (including alcohol) in different cultural contexts, showing how the claim of tradition can persist even while the impetus toward change is pervasive. In some cases, change is strongly resisted; in others its' effects are profound and potentially highly destructive. In a world of globalisation, western investment and leisure tourism can combine with the profiteering of international drug trafficking to transform traditional patterns of intoxicant use; in a world of post-colonialism, the legacies of past impositions are still causing tragedies; and in a world of western-led drug control policies, unproblematic cultural incorporation of drug use into everyday life and sacred ritual is threatened by remote and ill-informed politicians and bureaucracies." "This book will be of interest to academics, students and receptive policy audiences, interested in understanding drugs and the issues raised by their use in unfamiliar contexts."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  1. Drug utilization > Cross-cultural studies
  2. Drug abuse > Cross-cultural studies
  3. Cross-Cultural Comparison [MESH]
  4. Substance-Related Disorders [MESH]
Genre/Form
  1. Cross-cultural studies
  2. Cross-cultural studies.
Contents
  1. Drugs, cultures and controls in comparative perspective / Ross Coomber and Nigel South -- The ritual use of ayahuasca by three Brazilian religions / Edward MacRae -- Coca use in Bolivia : a tradition of thousands of years / Alison Spedding -- A quasi-legal commodity in the Andes : coca-leaf consumption in north-western Argentina / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui -- Opium use in Rajasthan India : a socio-cultural perspective / Kalyan Ganguly -- The elixir of life or the devil's cud : the debate over qat (Catha edulis) in Yemeni culture / Daniel Martin Varisco -- Camba (Bolivia) drinking patterns : changes in alcohol use, anthropology and research perspectives / Dwight B. Heath -- The dis-ease over native North American drinking : experiences of the Innu of northern Labrador / Colin Samson -- In search of the divine : Wixárika (Huichol) peyote traditions in Mexico / Stacy B. Schaefer -- Ganja and the road to decriminalisation in Jamaica / Barry Chevannes -- Living with heroin at the Kenya coast / Susan Beckerleg.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain