Consuming habits : drugs in history and anthropology / edited by Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy, and Andrew Sherratt

Object Details

Author

Goodman, Jordan

Lovejoy, Paul E

Sherratt, Andrew 1946-2006

Contents

Introduction : peculiar substances ; Alcohol and its alternatives : symbol and substance in pre-industrial cultures / Andrew Sherratt -- Coca, beer, cigars and yagé : meals and anti-meals in an Amerindian community / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Nicotian dreams : the prehistory and early history of tobacco in eastern North America / Alexander von Gernet -- Efficacy and concentration : analogies in betel use among the Fuyuge (Papua New Guinea) / Eric Hirsch -- Kola nuts : the 'coffee' of the central Sudan / Paul E. Lovejoy

Excitantia : or, how enlightenment Europe took to soft drugs / Jordan Goodman -- From coffeehouse to parlour : the consumption of coffee, tea and sugar in north-western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Woodruff D. Smith -- Tobacco use and tobacco taxation : a battle of interests in early modern Europe / Jacob M. Price -- Japan and the world narcotics traffic / Kathryn Meyer -- The rise and fall and rise of cocaine in the United States / David T. Courtwright

1995

Type

Books

Physical description

xii, 244 p. ; 24 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Psychotropic drugs--Cross-cultural studies

Psychotropic drugs--Social aspects

Psychotropic drugs--History

Record ID

siris_sil_514151

Metadata Usage (text)

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