Consuming Habits: Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs : Drugs in History and Anthropology (Paperback, 2 ed)

Introduction: Peculiar Substances  1. Alcohol and its Alternatives: Symbol and Substance in Pre-Industrial Cultures  2. Coca, Beer, Cigars and Yag'e: Meals and Anti-Meals in an Amerindinian Community  3. Nicotian Dreams: The Prehistory and Early History of Tobacco in Eastern North America  4. Betelnut ‘Bisnis’ and Cosmology: A View from Papua New Guinea  5. Kola Nuts: The 'Coffee' of the Central Sudan  6. Excitantia: Or, How Enlightenment Europe took to Soft Drugs  7. From Coffeehouse to Parlour: The Consumption of Coffee, Tea and Sugar in Northwestern Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries  8. Tobacco Use and Tobacco Taxation: A Battle of Interests in Early Modern Europe  9. Globalising Ganja: The British Empire and International Cannabis Traffic c. 1834 to c. 1939  10. Japan and the World Narcotics Traffic  11. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Cocaine in the United States  12. Building castles of Spit ? The Role of Khat in Work, Ritual and Leisure  13. Afterword