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Book Narcotic Plants and Stimulants of the Ancient Americans

Download or read book Narcotic Plants and Stimulants of the Ancient Americans written by William Edwin Safford and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narcotic Plants and Stimulants of the Ancient Americans

Download or read book Narcotic Plants and Stimulants of the Ancient Americans written by William Edwin Safford and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narcotic Plants and Simulants of the Ancient Americans

Download or read book Narcotic Plants and Simulants of the Ancient Americans written by William Edwin Safford and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Narcotic Plant Datura in Aboriginal American Culture

Download or read book The Narcotic Plant Datura in Aboriginal American Culture written by Anna Hadwick Gayton and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 224 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 American Anthropologist

Download or read book American Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miscellaneous Publication

Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographies and Literature of Agriculture

Download or read book Bibliographies and Literature of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Readers  Guide to Periodical Literature

Download or read book Readers Guide to Periodical Literature written by Anna Lorraine Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History written by Paul Gootenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This essay reveals how a global "New Drug History" has evolved over the past three decades, along with its latest thematic trends and possible next directions. Scholars have long studied drugs, but only in the 1990s did serious archival and global study of what are now illicit drugs emerge, largely from the influence of the anthropology of drugs on history. A series of key interdisciplinary influences are now in play beyond anthropology, among them, commodity and consumption studies, sociology, medical history, cultural studies, and transnational history. Scholars connect drugs and their changing political or cultural status to larger contexts and epochal events such as wars, empires, capitalism, modernization, or globalizing processes. As the field expands in scope, it may shift deeper into non-western perspectives, a fluid historical definition of drugs; environmental concerns; and research on cannabis and opiates sparked by their current transformations or crises"--

Book American Folk Medicine

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  • Author : Wayland D. Hand
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-28
  • ISBN : 0520336771
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book American Folk Medicine written by Wayland D. Hand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Book Poison Arrows

    Book Details:
  • Author : David E. Jones
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2009-06-03
  • ISBN : 0292779712
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book Poison Arrows written by David E. Jones and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of organic compounds used as poisons—on arrows and spears, in food, and even as insecticides—by numerous Native American tribes. Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of arsenical smoke in China, which dates to at least 1000 BC, for example) the use of “poison arrows” and other deadly substances by Native American groups has been fraught with contradiction. At last revealing clear documentation to support these theories, anthropologist David Jones transforms the realm of ethnobotany in Poison Arrows. Examining evidence within the few extant descriptive accounts of Native American warfare, along with grooved arrowheads and clues from botanical knowledge, Jones builds a solid case to indicate widespread and very effective use of many types of toxins. He argues that various groups applied them to not only warfare but also to hunting, and even as an early form of insect extermination. Culling extensive ethnological, historical, and archaeological data, Jones provides a thoroughly comprehensive survey of the use of ethnobotanical and entomological compounds applied in wide-ranging ways, including homicide and suicide. Although many narratives from the contact period in North America deny such uses, Jones now offers conclusive documentation to prove otherwise. A groundbreaking study of a subject that has been long overlooked, Poison Arrows imparts an extraordinary new perspective to the history of warfare, weaponry, and deadly human ingenuity. “A unique contribution to the field of American Indian ethnology. . . . This information has never been compiled before, and I doubt that many ethnologists in the field have ever suspected the extent to which poison was used among North American Indians. This book significantly extends our understanding.” —Wayne Van Horne, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Kennesaw State University

Book The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science

Download or read book The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science

Download or read book The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Selected Bibliography on Management of Western Ranges  Livestock  and Wildlife

Download or read book A Selected Bibliography on Management of Western Ranges Livestock and Wildlife written by Frederic Gordon Renner and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greater cost of marketing live poultry as compared with dressed poultry is partly transportation cost insofar as the poultry is carried by freight. But the major portion is found in the service charges at New York City.

Book Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science

Download or read book Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: