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Title Cannabis and culture / editor, Vera Rubin
Published The Hague : Mouton ; Chicago : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Aldine, ©1975

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 598 pages, 27 [i.e. 25] pages of plates) : illustrations
Series World anthropology
World anthropology.
Contents Typification of Cannabis sativa L. / William T. Stearn -- Cannabis : an example of taxonomic neglect / Richard Evans Schultes [and others] -- Early diffusion and folk uses of hemp / Sula Benet -- The origin and use of cannabis in eastern Asia : their linguistic cultural implications / Hui-Lin Li -- Ethnobotanical aspects of cannabis in Southeast Asia / Marie Alexandrine Martin -- Cannabis smoking in 13th-14th century Ethiopia : chemical evidence / Nikolaas J. van der Merwe -- Dagga : the history and ethnographic setting of Cannabis sativa in southern Africa / Brian M. du Toit -- The social nexus of ganja in Jamaica / Lambros Comitas -- The ritual use of cannabis in Mexico / Roberto Williams-Garcia -- Cannabis and cultural groups in a Colombian municipio / William L. Partridge -- Patterns of marihuana use in Brazil / Harry William Hutchinson -- Economic significance of Cannabis sativa in the Moroccan Rif / Roger Joseph -- Traditional patterns of hashish use in Egypt / Ahmad M. Khalifa -- The traditional role and symbolism of hashish among Moroccan Jews in Israel and the effect of acculturation / Phyllis Palgi -- The social and cultural context of cannabis use in Rwanda / Helen Codere -- Réunion : cannabis in a pluricultural and polyethnic society / Jean Benoist -- Social aspects of the use of cannabis in India / Khwaja A. Hasan -- Cannabis in Nepal : an overview / James Fisher -- The "ganja vision" in Jamaica / Vera Rubin -- Cannabis sativa L. (marihuana). 6, Variations in marihuana preparations and usage -- chemical and pharmacological consequences / Alvin B. Segelman, R. Duane Sofia and Florence H. Segelman -- Social and medical aspects of the use of cannabis in Brazil / Alvaro Rubim de Pinho -- Sociocultural and epidemiological aspects of hashish use in Greece / C. Stefanis, C. Ballas and D. Madianou -- Marihuana and genetic studies in Colombia : the problem in the city and in the country / B.R. Elejalde -- Cannabis usage in Pakistan : a pilot study of long term effects on social status and physical health / Munir A. Khan, Assad Abbas and Knud Jensen -- The significance of marihuana in a small agricultural community in Jamaica / Joseph Schaeffer -- Chronic cannabis use in Costa Rica : a description of research objectives / W.E. Carter and W.J. Coggins -- Man, culture and hallucinogens : an overview / Marlene Dobkin de Rios -- Peyote and Huichol worldview : the structure of a mystic vision / Barbara G. Myerhoff -- Magico-religious use of tobacco among South American Indians / Johannes Wilbert -- Coca chewing : a new perspective / Roderick E. Burchard -- Cannabis or alcohol : the Jamaican experience / Michael H. Beaubrun -- Cannabis use in Canada / Melvyn Green and Ralph D. Miller -- Memories, reflections and myths : the American Marihuana Commission / Louis Bozzetti and Jack Blaine -- Sociocultural factors in marihuana use in the United States / William H. McGlothlin -- Intersections of anthropology and law in the cannabis area / John Kaplan
Notes Papers presented at a conference held during the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Cannabis -- Congresses
Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnology.
Cannabis -- Congresses
Cannabis
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Anthropology, Cultural
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction.
SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- General.
Ethnology
Cross-cultural studies
Cannabis
Hanf
Rauschgift
Haschisch
Verbreitung
Hasjisj.
Culturele aspecten.
Cannabis.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Rubin, Vera D
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago, Ill.)
ISBN 9783110812060
3110812061