The abandoned narcotic : kava and cultural instability in Melanesia /
Ron Brunton revives a problem posed by the great anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers in History of Melanesian Society (1914): how to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders. Rivers believed that it was abandoned by many...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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Series: | Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ;
69. |
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |