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Dangerous harvest : drug plants and the transformation of indigenous landscapes / edited by Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, Kent Mathewson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinberg, Michael K., Editor.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug traffic.
- Drug control.
- Drug abuse.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2004
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout history almost all traditional indigenous societies have used psychactive substances derived from plants in religious and healing rituals. This text explores this issue from a variety of perspectives, ranging from opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan to peyote gardens in south Texas.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Michael K. Steinberg
- Drugs, moral geographies, and indigenous peoples : some initial mappings and central issues / Kent Mathewson
- The stimulus of prohibition : a critical history of the global narcotics trade / Alfred Mccoy
- Opium and the people of Laos / Joseph Westermeyer
- Opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Nigel J.R. Allen
- The state and the ongoing struggle over coca in Bolivia : legitimacy, hegemony, and the exercise of power / Harry Sanabria
- The marijuana milpa : agricultural adaptations in a post-subsistence Maya landscape in southern Belize / Michael K. Steinberg
- Sacred and profane uses of the cactus Lophophora Williamsii from the south Texas Texas peyote gardens / Clarissa Kimber, Darrel McDonald
- Desert traffic : the dynamics of the drug trade in northwestern Mexico / Eric Perramond
- Cannabis in colonial India : production, state intervention, and resistance in the late nineteenth-century Bengali landscape / James H. Mills
- Suppressing opium and "reforming" minorities : antidrug campaigns in ethnic communities in the early People's Republic of China / Zhou Yongming
- Environmental and social consequences of coca/cocaine in Peru : policy alternatives and a research agenda / Kenneth R. Young
- Modern use and environmental impact of the kava plant int eh remote Oceania / Mark Merlin, William Raynor
- The global nexus of drug cultivation / Joseph J. Hobbs.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028662-8
- 0-19-756180-2
- 1-60256-854-5
- 1-280-53131-2
- 0-19-534951-2
- OCLC:
- 476023003
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