Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Living with Drugs
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART 1: Traditional and Modern Drug Use
  • 1. The Treatment of Intoxication and Ecstasy in Christian Churches
  • 1.1. Drugs, ecstasy and religion
  • 1.2. Why are Christians afraid of intoxication?
  • 1.3. Ecstasy in Christian lands: an apologetic spectacle
  • 2. Between Boredom and Intoxication
  • 2.1. The hand, the cigarette, the glass
  • 2.2. A thirst for intoxication is not an alcohol addiction
  • 2.3. The discomfort linked to repetition
  • 2.4. Conclusion: outputting images
  • 2.5. References
  • 3. Drugs and Development: Qat, Ethiopia's "Green Gold"
  • 3.1. In Ethiopia, the tide of qat is chasing coffee away from Hararghe
  • 3.2. From the "leaf of Allah" to the "green gold"
  • 3.3. The "green gold" rush
  • 3.4. Morals, development and urbanization
  • 3.5. References
  • 4. Qat in Yemen, a War Profiteer
  • 4.1. An irresistible expansion
  • 4.2. The rhythm of qat
  • 4.3. Attempts at prohibition
  • 4.4. References
  • 5. A History of the Present on Drugs: Opium, Heroin and Methamphetamine
  • 5.1. Prelude. Everyday history and historical anthropology
  • 5.2. Opium as genealogy (1900-1955)
  • Table 5.1. Number of shirehkesh-khanehs (1940)
  • 5.3. Heroin and modernity (1955-1990)
  • 5.4. Methamphetamines, representatives of post-modernity
  • 5.5. Epilogue. Time, speed and drugs
  • 6. "White Death" Heroin's Odyssey in Greece During the 20th Century
  • 6.1. The first wave
  • 6.2. Sources of heroin
  • 6.3. Consumption patterns
  • 6.4. Heroin and hashish
  • 6.5. The imagery of "heroin addiction"
  • 6.6. The eclipse and reappearance of heroin
  • 7. Drug Prohibition in Vietnam
  • 7.1. Prohibition under the monarchical regime
  • 7.2. Legalization and leasing in the kingdom
  • 7.3. Colonial monopoly and prohibition pledges
  • 7.4. The Indochina war, instrumentalization of drugs against a backdrop of prohibitionist desire
  • 7.5. Independent Vietnam
  • 7.6. Reunification of Vietnam, prohibition and forced detoxification
  • 7.7. Regeneration of drug addiction, public health and repressive politics in contemporary Vietnam
  • 7.8. Not to conclude
  • 7.9. References
  • 8. "Ganja in the Mountains, Sabu in the Sea": The Rural Drug Landscape in Aceh, Indonesia
  • 8.1. The normality of drugs
  • 8.2. Geosymbolic of psychotropic drugs
  • 8.3. The drug experience: illegality and transformation
  • 8.4. Two careers
  • 8.5. The drug-free village
  • 8.6. Conclusion
  • 8.7. References
  • 9. A "Pacific" Drug? Vanuatu's Kava and the American Market
  • 9.1. Drinking kava in New York City
  • 9.2. A traditional plant in the contemporary Pacific
  • 9.3. Kava, the symbol of Vanuatu's renaissance
  • 9.4. The birth of a market
  • 9.5. Kava storming the Western market
  • 9.6. Conclusion: an "authentic" and "organic" country?
  • 9.7. References
  • PART 2: The War on Drugs: A Humanitarian Plague