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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Steinberg, Michael K., 1965-; Hobbs, Joseph J. 1956-; Mathewson, Kent, 1946-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: viii, 325 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

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.