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Consuming habits : deconstructing drugs in history and anthropology

Title: Consuming habits : deconstructing drugs in history and anthropology / edited by Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy, and Andrew Sherratt.
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

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Description

xii, 244 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction: Peculiar Substances / Andrew Sherratt -- 1. Alcohol and Its Alternatives: Symbol and Substance in Pre-Industrial Cultures / Andrew Sherratt -- 2. Coca, Beer, Cigars and Yage: Meals and Anti-Meals in an Amerindian Community / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- 3. Nicotian Dreams: The Prehistory and Early History of Tobacco in Eastern North America / Alexander von Gernet -- 4. Efficacy and Concentration: Analogies in Betel Use Among the Fuyuge (Papua New Guinea) / Eric Hirsch -- 5. Kola Nuts: The 'Coffee' of the Central Sudan / Paul E. Lovejoy -- 6. Excitantia: Or, How Enlightenment Europe Took to Soft Drugs / Jordan Goodman -- 7. From Coffeehouse to Parlour: The Consumption of Coffee, Tea and Sugar in North-Western Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Woodruff D. Smith -- 8. Tobacco Use and Tobacco Taxation: A Battle of Interests in Early Modern Europe / Jacob M. Price -- 9. Japan and the World Narcotics Traffic / Kathryn Meyer --
10. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Cocaine in the United States / David T. Courtwright -- Afterword / Jordan Goodman and Paul E. Lovejoy.

ISBN

0415090393 :

LCCN

94042752

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Columbia University Libraries