Consuming Habits: Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs: Drugs in History and Anthropology

by Paul E. Lovejoy, Jordan Goodman, Andrew Sherratt

Book Overview

Covering a wide range of substances, including opium, cocaine, coffee, tobacco, kola, and betelnut, from prehistory to the present day, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect companion for all those interested in how different cultures have defined drugs across the ages.

Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415425816
• ISBN13: 9780415425810
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"