Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology - Hardcover
This pioneering collection of original essays explores the rich analytical category of psycho- active substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives.
Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of civilizations and the growth of the world economy. Consuming Habits describes how and why:
- tea and coffee replaced beer on the breakfast tables of 18th century Europe
- in Islamic emirates at the turn of the century kola nuts formed part of tax payments, and were given as gifts by so-called `big men'
- In 1902 opera singers had their doctors prescribe them cocaine to aid singing
- the original version of `coca-cola' was described as a `brain tonic.'
This pioneering collection of original essays explores the rich analytical category of psychoactive substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Jordan Goodman is Lecturer in International Economic History at UMIST and author of Tobacco in History (Routledge, 1993). Paul E. Lovejoy is Professor of History at York University, Canada, and author of Caravans of Kola (Routledge, 1980). Andrew Sherratt is Lecturer in Archaeology and Senior Assistant Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford.
Review:
The individual papers provide a rich array of methodological approaches not only to understanding social and cultural meanings of drug use, but to using drugs as a means of illuminating larger historical and cultural issues.
–Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences , Summer 1997
The fascinating way in which different ages and societies perceive foods and drugs, and how these are used to alter our perception of reality, is examined in...[this] equally fascinating collection of essays.
–Healthy and Natural Journal
–Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences , Summer 1997
The fascinating way in which different ages and societies perceive foods and drugs, and how these are used to alter our perception of reality, is examined in...[this] equally fascinating collection of essays.
–Healthy and Natural Journal
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0415090393
- ISBN 13 9780415090391
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages260
- EditorGoodman Jordan, Sherratt Andrew, Lovejoy Paul E.
- Rating
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Very Good. . {Is9781571031815. Seller Inventory # BOS-A-05i-01262
Buy Used
US$ 45.48
Convert currency
Stock Image
Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0415090393-2-3
Buy Used
US$ 84.96
Convert currency
Seller Image
Consuming Habits: Drugs and History in Anthropology
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Routledge: 1996. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. Second edition, printed in 1996. Black boards with foxing to the top edge of the text block. Clean, unclipped jacket has a small Moe's Books sticker near the heel of the spine and trace rubbing to the back cover. Book and jacket are both in very good condition. Seller Inventory # 001648
Buy Used
US$ 80.00
Convert currency
Stock Image
Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology
Published by
Routledge, London
(1995)
ISBN 10: 0415090393
ISBN 13: 9780415090391
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. XII, 244 p. Sound clean unmarked copy rubbing to the jacket. X25. Seller Inventory # 005296
Buy Used
US$ 85.00
Convert currency
Seller Image
CONSUMING HABITS Drugs in History and Anthropology
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: NF. Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket. . 8.9 X 7.2 X 0.9 inches. 260 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *. Seller Inventory # 53140
Buy Used
US$ 100.00
Convert currency
Stock Image
Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Fine. Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 0415090393-2-2
Buy Used
US$ 150.00
Convert currency