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From coffee to crack, Rudgley takes a historical approach to drugs and examines how their usage has affected economic, political and sexual lives in society.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Oxford anthropologist Rudgley offers a survey of the use of intoxicants from the Stone Ages to modern society. Instead of making wild claims about the centrality of intoxicants in human evolution, Rudgley is content simply to note the ubiquity of drug use, leaving readers to draw their own conclusions. A particularly interesting observation is that, contrary to popular belief, many cultures used intoxicants for secular as well as spiritual purposes. While Rudgley has offered a sampling of cultures rather than an exhaustive survey, he has included enough information to make this book interesting to general readers and a useful starting point for serious scholars. Recommended for all libraries.
Eric Hinsdale, Trinity Univ. Lib., San Antonio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Eric Hinsdale, Trinity Univ. Lib., San Antonio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Prehistoric man and those people called primitive, those once termed "the lower races," were, in the theories of the nineteenth century, the despised Stone Age cultures, those rejected from the edifice of "civilization." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
snuff trays, psychoactive species, entoptic images, entoptic phenomena, psychoactive plants, active alkaloids, sacred substance, psychoactive properties, geometric motifs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Rig Veda, New World, Bronze Age, Stone Age, Dobkin de Rios, South America, Upper Paleolithic, Marco Polo, Old Man of the Mountains, United States, Arnhem Land, Central Asia, Museum of Mankind, North American Indian, Pitt Rivers Museum New!
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Prehistoric man and those people called primitive, those once termed "the lower races," were, in the theories of the nineteenth century, the despised Stone Age cultures, those rejected from the edifice of "civilization." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
snuff trays, psychoactive species, entoptic images, entoptic phenomena, psychoactive plants, active alkaloids, sacred substance, psychoactive properties, geometric motifs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Rig Veda, New World, Bronze Age, Stone Age, Dobkin de Rios, South America, Upper Paleolithic, Marco Polo, Old Man of the Mountains, United States, Arnhem Land, Central Asia, Museum of Mankind, North American Indian, Pitt Rivers Museum New!
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- The Poem Of Hashish by Charles Baudelaire on page 120, page 121, and Back Matter
- New Guinea (The World's Wild Places) by Roy D. MacKay in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Narcotic Plants by William A. Emboden in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics) by Apuleius on page 106, and Back Matter
- The Politics of Ecstasy (Leary, Timothy) by Timothy Leary on page 124, and Back Matter
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- Earth Tales: New Perspectives on Geography and History by Henry T. Conserva on page 128, page 129, and page 132
- Notes of a Potato Watcher (Texas A&M University Agriculture Series) by James Lang in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Arrest the Music!: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics (African Expressive Cultures) by Tejumola Olaniyan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World by David T. Courtwright in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization (Tracking Globalization) by Dr. Willem van Schendel on page 124, and Back Matter
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