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Ref ID: 21388
Ref Type: Book (Edited)
Editors: Lindstrom, Lamont
Title: Drugs in Western Pacific societies: relations of substance
Date: 1987
Source: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania monographs
Place of Publication: Lanham, Maryland
Publisher: University Press of America
Notes: Description: This volume explores how drug use functions in the interaction of people in the Western Pacific. Drugs act as special exchange tokens in this area of the world, and have great control over the exchange of goods and series. This book explains how drug production, exchange, and consumption fits into a social context. Drugs play a part in determining status, for example, and they must be understood in order to fully understand the Western Pacific culture as a whole.
Date Created: 4/7/2015
Volume: 11
Page End: 299

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