Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press Summary: 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. He suggests that kava's abandonment can best be explained in terms of its association with unstable religious cults.
9780521040051
ISBN:0521040051
Pub Date: 2007Publisher: Cambridge University Press Summary: 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. He suggests that kava's abandonment can best be explained in terms of its association with unstable religious cults.
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ISBN-13:
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Pub Date: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
9780521040051
ISBN:
0521040051
Pub Date: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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. He suggests that kava's abandonment can best be explained in terms of its association with unstable religious cults.
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