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Book Substance and Seduction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacey Schwartzkopf
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2017-11-08
  • ISBN : 1477313877
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Substance and Seduction written by Stacey Schwartzkopf and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters in Substance and Seduction trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy.

Book Substance and Seduction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacey Schwartzkopf
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2017-11-08
  • ISBN : 1477313893
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Substance and Seduction written by Stacey Schwartzkopf and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters in Substance and Seduction trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy.

Book Caution Against Seduction

Download or read book Caution Against Seduction written by David Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient Psychoactive Substances

Download or read book Ancient Psychoactive Substances written by Scott M. Fitzpatrick and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A well-founded and presented description of the integral role that psychoactive substances played in ancient societies. . . . A unique addition to ancient history collections.”—Choice “Very informative, well referenced, and well illustrated.”—Latin American Antiquity “A diverse and interesting introduction to the evidence for psychoactive use in the past, including consideration of the physical techniques and interpretative methods for understanding these practices.”—Journal of Psychedelic Studies "This well-researched and fascinating volume not only demonstrates the important cultural role of psychoactive substances in ancient societies but also points the way to an emerging research field. The unveiling of the past history of drug use becomes a lesson for present-day society."--Jan G. Bruhn, founding editor, Journal of Ethnopharmacology "Presents a broad overview of drug plants and fermented beverages by using anthropological, ethnological, archaeological, iconographic, chemical, and botanical approaches. Essential reading."--Elisa Guerra Doce, author of Drugs in Prehistory: Archaeological Evidence of the Use of Psychoactive Substances in Europe Mind-altering substances have been used by humans for thousands of years. In fact, ancient societies sometimes encouraged the consumption of drugs. Focusing on the archaeological study of how various entheogens have been used in the past, this volume examines why humans have social and psychological needs for these substances. Contributors trace the long-term use of drugs in ancient cultures and highlight the ways they evolved from being sacred to recreational in more modern times. By analyzing evidence of these substances across a diverse range of ancient cultures, the contributors explore how and why past civilizations harvested, manufactured, and consumed drugs. Case studies examine the use of stimulants, narcotics, and depressants by hunter-gatherers who roamed Africa and Eurasia, prehistoric communities in North and South America, and Maya kings and queens. Offering perspectives from many different fields of study, contributors illustrate the wide variety of sources and techniques that can provide information about materials that are often invisible to archaeologists. They use advanced biomolecular procedures to identify alkaloids and resins on cups, pipes, and other artifacts. They interpret paintings on vases and discuss excavations of breweries and similar sites. Uncovering signs of drugs, including ayahuasca, peyote, ephedra, cannabis, tobacco, yaupon, vilca, and maize and molle beer, they explain how psychoactive substances were integral to interpersonal relationships, religious practices, and social cohesion in antiquity. Scott M. Fitzpatrick, professor of archaeology at the University of Oregon, is coeditor of Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean. Contributors: Quetta Kaye | Victor D. Thompson | Thomas J. Pluckhahn | Sean Rafferty | Mark Merlin | Matt Sayre | Constantino Manuel Torres | Zuzana Chovanec | Jennifer A. Loughmiller-Newman | Justin Jennings | Daniel M. Seinfeld | Shannon Tushingham | Scott M. Fitzpatrick

Book Seduction

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  • Author : Paul H. Blachly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Seduction written by Paul H. Blachly and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Power of Seduction

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  • Author : Sabrina Miller
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2019-12-23
  • ISBN : 9781794785694
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book The Power of Seduction written by Sabrina Miller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabrina Miller's adaptation of a family who is riddled by the seduction of money, materialism, the drug life and mayhem is sure to catch your attention and keep you wanting more as she unravels the "THE POWER OF SEDUCTION." You are sure to be seduced and entertained by this narrative of real life for many and a riveting tale told by a sassy young woman from the south. The Power of Seduction is powerful and is ready to take you on the ride of a lifetime.

Book The Substance of God

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  • Author : Perry Brass
  • Publisher : Perry Brass
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781892149046
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Substance of God written by Perry Brass and published by Perry Brass. This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murdered gay scientist returns to life due to a substance that constantly regenerated itself. He is pursued by his murderers who want the substance he now carries.

Book Discovering Addiction

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  • Author : Nancy D. Campbell
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2007-11-03
  • ISBN : 9780472116102
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Discovering Addiction written by Nancy D. Campbell and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-11-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking study of the history and ethics of addiction science

Book Ripe for Seduction

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  • Author : Isobel Carr
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781455510566
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Ripe for Seduction written by Isobel Carr and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The League of Second Sons A secret society of younger sons, sworn to aid and abet each other, no matter the scandal or cost . . . After the scandalous demise of her marriage, Lady Olivia Carlow knows the rakes of the ton will think her fair game. So when a letter arrives bearing an indecent offer from the incorrigible Roland Devere, she seizes the opportunity. Turning the tables on the notorious rogue, she blackmails him into playing her betrothed for the season. But no matter how broad his shoulders or chiseled his features, she will never fall prey to his suave charm. When Roland boasted he'd be the first into Lady Olivia's bed, he couldn't have imagined that behind those brilliant blue eyes lurked a vixen with a scheme of her own. Still, Roland is not about to abandon his original wager. If anything, learning that the lovely Olivia is as bold as she is beautiful makes him more determined to seduce her into never saying "never" again.

Book Delinquency in Society

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  • Author : Regoli
  • Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
  • Release : 2016-08-15
  • ISBN : 1284112950
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book Delinquency in Society written by Regoli and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delinquency in Society, Tenth Edition provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of juvenile delinquency, criminal behavior, and status-offending youths.

Book The Southwestern Reporter

Download or read book The Southwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Substance Abuse Treatment  Addressing the Specific Needs of Women

Download or read book Substance Abuse Treatment Addressing the Specific Needs of Women written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics

Download or read book The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics written by Kriss Ravetto and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In works by filmmakers from Bertolucci to Spielberg, debauched images of nazi and fascist eroticism, symbols of violence and immorality, often bear an uncanny resemblance to the images and symbols once used by the fascists themselves to demarcate racial, sexual, and political others. This book exposes the "madness" inherent in such a course, which attests to the impossibility of disengaging visual and rhetorical constructions from political, ideological, and moral codes. Kriss Ravetto argues that contemporary discourses using such devices actually continue unacknowledged rhetorical, moral, and visual analogies of the past. Against postwar fictional and historical accounts of World War II in which generic images of evil characterize the nazi and the fascist, Ravetto sets the more complex approach of such filmmakers as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Liliana Cavani, and Lina Wertmuller. Her book asks us to think deeply about what it means to say that we have conquered fascism, when the aesthetics of fascism still describe and determine how we look at political figures and global events. Book jacket.

Book The Criminal Law Magazine and Reporter

Download or read book The Criminal Law Magazine and Reporter written by Stewart Rapalje and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing original articles on timely topics, full reports of important cases, and a quarterly digest of all recent criminal cases, American and English.

Book A Caution against Seduction  the substance of a sermon  on Prov  i  10   delivered at the funeral of a young woman of Lyman  N H   Feb  22  1812

Download or read book A Caution against Seduction the substance of a sermon on Prov i 10 delivered at the funeral of a young woman of Lyman N H Feb 22 1812 written by David SUTHERLAND (of New Hampshire.) and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drug paraphernalia and youth

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Drug paraphernalia and youth written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Educator s Guide To Substance Abuse Prevention

Download or read book The Educator s Guide To Substance Abuse Prevention written by Sanford Weinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Educator's Guide to Substance Abuse Prevention is for educators and other school personnel who are concerned about student drug use and school violence. It will help them to appreciate and use their humanity, professional skills, educational ideals, and the school curriculum as tools for substance abuse prevention. Teachers' concerns are addressed in several ways. First, the text provides a guide through which they may resolve personal and professional concerns about the commitments, limits, and boundaries of their working relationships with students. Second, it describes tasks that teachers can perform and mental health issues they can address in creating classroom policies, procedures, and rules to promote healthful learning activity in the classroom. Third, the author summarizes and interprets research and theory about substance abuse as they apply specifically to educational prevention and to professional teaching practice--arguing that classroom management strategies, learning activities, and social interaction are a teacher's primary tools of prevention, and showing how teachers may use these tools in any curricular area and without direct reference to drugs. A highlight of this text is its emphasis on helping teachers to explore drug-related issues from within the context of their own curricular specialties and to integrate substance abuse prevention with the curriculum in many school subjects--including the arts, literature, social studies, history, government, science, and culture. Action-oriented prevention strategies based on these content areas are suggested. The Educator's Guide to Substance Abuse Prevention: *focuses primarily on teaching, learning, and prevention rather than on information about drugs; *helps teachers to better use what they already do, know, and are in order to respond competently, responsibly, and with sensitivity to the needs of their students; *attends to the needs of teachers who do prevention work and the needs of children who are the target of prevention efforts; *describes student disappointment and disillusionment with family, school, and community as sources of risk and the legitimate domain in which teachers may serve a curative role; *provides extensive coverage of historical, social, and cultural issues related to substance abuse and school violence; and *alerts teachers to the risk to children posed by extremist adult groups, prominent negative role models, popular culture, and peer pressure.