Duvall Chris S. Duvall

African Roots of Marijuana (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa-often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes-shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478004530
• Artikelnr.: 56916889

Autorenporträt

Chris S. Duvall is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of Cannabis.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: Pay Attention to African Cannabis
1. Cannabis and Africa  3
2. Race and Plant Evolution  33
Part II. Evidence: How Cannabis Came to Africa, What Happened to it There,
and How It Crossed the Atlantic
3. Roots of African Cannabis Cultures  53
4. Cannabis Colonizes the Continent  72
5. A Convenient Crop  95
6. Society Overturned: The Bena Riamba  112
7. Cannabis Crosses the Atlantic  125
Part III. Discussion and Conclusions: What Carried Cannabis?
8. Working under the Influence  159
9. Buying and Banning  184
10. Rethinking Marijuana  216
Acknowledgments  231
Notes  233
Index  341