The African Roots of Marijuana (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Chris S Duvall
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	360
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-0394-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > Drug addiction & substance abuse Books > History > African history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-0394-4
Barcode:	9781478003946

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