Another kind of gold: an introduction to marijuana in Papua New Guinea.: An article from: Oceania
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Author(s)Jamon Halvaksz, David Lipset
PublisherThomson Gale
ISBN / ASINB000MRA1FU
ISBN-13978B000MRA1F1
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
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From the author: Widespread as marijuana has become in Papua New Guinea (PNG), little ethnographic investigation has been done on problems raised by its cultivation, consumption and traffic there. In this essay, we survey the legal contexts of its production and circulation both in PNG and throughout the Pacific. We assess how the drug has been depicted in the regional literature. While our primary focus is on PNG, our point in offering these broader perspectives is to begin to outline political and comparative issues suggested by the arrival of this substance on Pacific shores. Our overall goal is to encourage rigorous and comprehensive discussion of the ambiguous relationship among society, the state and global capitalism that the drug constitutes, in addition to the many other, rather smaller-scale problems raised in each of our four essays about the ongoing construction of and debate about its meaning at the local-level.
Citation Details
Title: Another kind of gold: an introduction to marijuana in Papua New Guinea.
Author: Jamon Halvaksz
Publication:Oceania (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 76 Issue: 3 Page: 209(11)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
From the author: Widespread as marijuana has become in Papua New Guinea (PNG), little ethnographic investigation has been done on problems raised by its cultivation, consumption and traffic there. In this essay, we survey the legal contexts of its production and circulation both in PNG and throughout the Pacific. We assess how the drug has been depicted in the regional literature. While our primary focus is on PNG, our point in offering these broader perspectives is to begin to outline political and comparative issues suggested by the arrival of this substance on Pacific shores. Our overall goal is to encourage rigorous and comprehensive discussion of the ambiguous relationship among society, the state and global capitalism that the drug constitutes, in addition to the many other, rather smaller-scale problems raised in each of our four essays about the ongoing construction of and debate about its meaning at the local-level.
Citation Details
Title: Another kind of gold: an introduction to marijuana in Papua New Guinea.
Author: Jamon Halvaksz
Publication:Oceania (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 76 Issue: 3 Page: 209(11)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
