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OverviewAfter 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chris S. DuvallPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9781478003946ISBN 10: 1478003944 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 14 June 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: Pay Attention to African Cannabis 1. Cannabis and Africa 3 2. Race and Plant Evolution 33 Part II. Evidence: How Cannabis Came to Africa, What Happened to it There, and How It Crossed the Atlantic 3. Roots of African Cannabis Cultures 53 4. Cannabis Colonizes the Continent 72 5. A Convenient Crop 95 6. Society Overturned: The Bena Riamba 112 7. Cannabis Crosses the Atlantic 125 Part III. Discussion and Conclusions: What Carried Cannabis? 8. Working under the Influence 159 9. Buying and Banning 184 10. Rethinking Marijuana 216 Acknowledgments 231 Notes 233 Index 341ReviewsOffers a great example of why geographers, historians, and other professionally trained humanists need to keep writing about cannabis: these are the only people who can explain and contextualize the racist and colonialist assumptions baked into much of the most widely read literature on the plant. . . . The academic literature on cannabis may never be the same after The African Roots of Marijuana. -- Nick Johnson * Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society * This book will be a worthwhile addition to any university library and is especially useful for law schools and for programs in criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and history. . . . Highly recommended. All readership levels. -- D. R. Kavish * Choice * Offers a great example of why geographers, historians, and other professionally trained humanists need to keep writing about cannabis: these are the only people who can explain and contextualize the racist and colonialist assumptions baked into much of the most widely read literature on the plant. . . . The academic literature on cannabis may never be the same after The African Roots of Marijuana. -- Nick Johnson * Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society * Author InformationChris S. Duvall is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of Cannabis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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