:drug plants and the transformation of indigenous landscapes
/ edited by Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, and Kent Mathewson
New York
: Oxford University Press,
, c2003.
p.
: cm.
e
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.