Dangerous harvest drug plants and the transformation of indigenous landscapes

Introduction / Michael K. Steinberg -- Double agents : illicit drugs, cultural identities, indigenous moral geographies / 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 prod...

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Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford University Press 2004
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction / Michael K. Steinberg -- Double agents : illicit drugs, cultural identities, indigenous moral geographies / 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 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 -- Cultural uses of the south Texas peyote gardens / Clarissa Kimber and Darrel McDonald -- Desert traffic : the dynamics of the drug trade in northwestern Mexico / Eric Perramond -- Cannabis in colonial India : patterns of production, consumption, and state intervention in nineteenth century South Asia / Jim Mills -- Suppressing opium and "reforming" people : anti-drug campaign in ethnic communities in the early People's Republic of China / Yongming Zhou -- Environmental and social consequences of coca/cocaine in Peru / Kenneth R. Young -- The contemporary use and environmental impact of the kava plant, piper methysticum forst. f., in the tropical Pacific / Mark Mmerlin -- Won't fade away : some perspectives on the global matrix of drugs cultivation and consumption / Joseph J. Hobbs
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:VIII, 325 S.
Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:0195143191
0-19-514319-1
0195143205
0-19-514320-5