Drugs and alcohol in the Pacific : the making of new consumer trends and its consequences / edited by Juan F. Gamella.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gamella, Juan F.

Series:

Pacific world ; vol. 14.

The Pacific world ; vol. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotropic drugs--Social aspects--Pacific Area.

Psychotropic drugs.

Psychotropic drugs--Economic aspects--Pacific Area.

Drugs of abuse--Pacific Area.

Drugs of abuse.

Psychotropic drugs--Social aspects.

Pacific Area--Social conditions.

Pacific Area.

Local Subjects:

Pacific Area--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

lvi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

Part 1 The Indigenous Base

1 Antiquity of the Use of New World Hallucinogens / Richard Evans Schultes 1

2 Psychoactive Substances of the South Seas: Betel, Kava and Pituri / John Cawte 15

3 Peyotism, 1521-1891 / J.S. Slotkin 21

4 Russian Use of Amanita muscaria: A Footnote to Wasson's Soma / Ethel Dunn 51

Part 2 Tobacco

5 The Introduction of Tobacco into Japan / Ernest M. Satow 57

6 Early Prohibitions of Tobacco in China and Manchuria / L. Carrington Goodrich 81

7 Tobacco, Culture, and Health among American Indians: A Historical Review / Christina M. Pego, Robert F. Hill, Glenn W. Solomon, Robert M. Chisholm, Suzanne E. Ivey 91

Part 3 Opium

8 Opium Smoking in Ch'ing China / Jonathan Spence 113

9 Speculations on the Nature and Pattern of Opium Smoking / John C. Kramer 145

10 Opium in Java: A Sinister Friend / James R. Rush 155

11 The Opium Trade in Szechwan, 1881 to 1911 / S.A.M. Adshead 167

12 Reform, Nationalism and Internationalism: The Opium Suppression Movement in China and the Anglo-American Influence, 1900-1908 / Thomas D. Reins 175

Part 4 Coca-Cocaine

13 Inca and Colonial Settlement, Coca Cultivation and Endemic Disease in the Tropical Forest / Daniel W. Gade 217

14 Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes / Joseph A. Gagliano 235

15 America's First Cocaine Epidemic: What Did We Learn? / David F. Musto 253

Part 5 Alcohol

16 Opening Pandora's Bottle: Reconstructing Micronesians' Early Contacts with Alcoholic Beverages / Mac Marshall, Leslie B. Marshall 267

17 Drinking, Popular Protest, and Governmental Response in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Latin America / John E. Kicza 293

18 Malhiot's Journal: An Ethnohistoric Assessment of Chippewa Alcohol Behavior in the Early Nineteenth Century / Jack O. Waddell 311

19 Alcohol in Chinese Poems: References to Drunkenness, Flushing, and Drinking / Julia Lee 335

20 "A Battle Not Man's But God's": Origins of the American Temperance Crusade in the Struggle for Religious Authority / Laura A. Schmidt 371.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754601536

OCLC:

46319668