Dangerous harvest [[electronic resource] ] : drug plants and the transformation of indigenous landscapes / / edited by Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, Kent Mathewson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450287503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-19-756180-2; 1-60256-854-5; 1-280-53131-2; 0-19-534951-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Altri autori (Persone): SteinbergMichael K. <1965->; HobbsJoseph J <1956-> (Joseph John); MathewsonKent <1946->
• Disciplina: 363.45
• Soggetti: Drug traffic; Drug control; Drug abuse; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2004.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.