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The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia Book

The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia
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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. R, The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia
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  • The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia
  • Written by author Brunton, Ron, Ron, Brunton
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, 2009
  • 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. R
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List of illustrations and tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: W. H. R. Rivers and kava; 2. The traditional distribution of kava drinking; 3. Reconsidering Rivers' argument: the evidence; 4. Reconsidering Rivers' argument: assessment and implications; 5. Kava on Tanna: traditional ritual and contemporary modifications; 6. Kava on Tanna: the development of secular patterns of consumption; 7. The problems of Tannese society; 8. Conclusion; List of references; Glossary of Tannese words; Index.


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