The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia
(Book #69 in the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)
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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 once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders. Rivers believed that it was abandoned by many people even before European contact in favour of another drug, betel, drawing his speculations from the ideas of the diffusionist school of anthropology...
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"
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