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Routledge Drug Effects: Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective: 03 (Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology)

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Khat, marijuana, peyote―are these dangerous drugs or vilified plants with rich cultural and medical values? In this book, Lisa Gezon brings the drug debate into the 21st century, proposing criteria for evaluating psychotropic substances. Focusing on khat, whose bushy leaves are an increasingly popular stimulant and the target of vehement anti-drug campaigns, she explores biocultural and socioeconomic contexts on local, national, and global levels. Gezon provides a multidisciplinary examination of the plant’s direct physical and psychological effects, as well as indirect social and structural effects on income and labor productivity, identity, gendered relationships, global drug discourses, and food security. This sophisticated, multi-leveled analysis cuts through the traditional battle lines of the drug debate and is a model for understanding and evaluating psychotropic substances around the world. Review This ambitious book succeeds effectively in both of its distinctive aims. First, it offers a clear understanding of khat, a shrub with leaves that are chewed for psychoactive effects by limited populations around the world. This account is richly detailed for Madagascar, where khat has been grown for only a few decades, and there are excellent summaries about Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and a few other areas where it has been popular. Secondly, Gezon hews faithfully to her aim to exemplify "critical medical anthropology," an approach that combines meticulous ethnographic description of a local health issue (with full economic, political, and historical context) with an emphasis on relations that involve wealth and power on the global scene. The clearly written and well organized result nicely summarizes the peculiar but impressive ways that this "green gold" (mistakenly presumed by some to be illegal) supports economic development, female entrepreneurship, and ethnic identity without interfering with diet, work, health, or the local ecology. Impressive on both counts. Summing Up: Highly Recommended. All levels/libraries." - D.B. Heath, CHOICE About the Author Lisa L. Gezon is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology, University of West Georgia. Her previous books include Culture (with Conrad Kottak, 2010), Global Visions, Local Landscapes (2006), Political Ecology (with Susan Paulson, eds., 2005).

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1598744909
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 February 2012
Listed Since: 03 June 2011

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