Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes
Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, Kent Mathewson
Throughout history almost all traditional indigenous societies have used psychoactive substances derived from plants in religious and healing rituals. Once such plants are adopted by outsiders for profane use, the often impoverished peasant farmers who grow them are faced with a life of extreme poverty or are lured by the prospect of a very lucrative cash crop with a steady market. Before long, their cultural and physical landscape is drastically altered. The purpose of this book is to explore this issue from a variety of perspectives, ranging from opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan to peyote gardens in south Texas.
Year:
2004
Edition:
illustrated edition
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Language:
english
Pages:
325
ISBN 10:
0195143191
ISBN 13:
9780195143195
File:
PDF, 61.09 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2004
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