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

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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:viii, 325 p. :; ill., maps.
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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.