Chris S. Duvall

The African Roots of Marijuana

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Produktbeschreibung

In this authoritative history of cannabis in Africa, Chris S. Duvall challenges what readers thought they knew about cannabis by correcting widespread myths, outlining its relationship to slavery and colonialism, and highlighting Africa's centrality to knowledge about and the consumption of one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781478003946
• ISBN-10: 1478003944
• Artikelnr.: 53169171

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