Dangerous harvest drug plants and the transformation of indigenous landscapes / [electronic resource] :
edited by Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, Kent Mathewson.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.
- viii, 325 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Drugs, moral geographies, and indigenous peoples : some initial mappings and central issues / The stimulus of prohibition : a critical history of the global narcotics trade / Opium and the people of Laos / Opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan / The state and the ongoing struggle over coca in Bolivia : legitimacy, hegemony, and the exercise of power / The marijuana milpa : agricultural adaptations in a post-subsistence Maya landscape in southern Belize / Sacred and profane uses of the cactus Lophophora Williamsii from the south Texas Texas peyote gardens / Desert traffic : the dynamics of the drug trade in northwestern Mexico / Cannabis in colonial India : production, state intervention, and resistance in the late nineteenth-century Bengali landscape / Suppressing opium and "reforming" minorities : antidrug campaigns in ethnic communities in the early People's Republic of China / Environmental and social consequences of coca/cocaine in Peru : policy alternatives and a research agenda / 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. Michael K. Steinberg -- Kent Mathewson -- Alfred Mccoy -- Joseph Westermeyer -- Nigel J.R. Allen -- Harry Sanabria -- Michael K. Steinberg -- Clarissa Kimber, Darrel McDonald -- Eric Perramond -- James H. Mills -- Zhou Yongming -- Kenneth R. Young --
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