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DIVAnthropological study of the globalization of pharmaceuticals and its effects on local cultures, health, and economics./div

From khat to kava to ketamine, drugs are constitutive parts of cultures, identities, economies and livelihoods. This much-needed book is a clear introduction to

Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of

It is nearly impossible to discuss alcohol, tobacco, and drugs without applying our own cultural prism. In a concise, non-technical manner, Glasser combines her

"The authors show that drugs possessed characteristics that made them a particularly effective means for propagating trade or increasing the extent and intensit