The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia

by Ron Brunton

Book Overview

Ron Brunton revives a problem posed by the great anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers in History of Melanesian Society (1914): how to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521040051
• ISBN13: 9780521040051
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"