Subject
Social and Cultural Anthropology ; Anthropology ; Piper methysticum ; tannese kava ritual ; société traditionnelle, Kava (Beverage) -- Vanuatu., Kava ceremony -- Vanuatu., Tanna (Ni-Vanuatu people) -- Social conditions., Tanna (Ni-Vanuatu people) -- Drug use., Kava (Beverage), Kava ceremony., Vanuatu.

Domains
Anthropologie

Description

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. He suggests that kava's abandonment can best be explained in terms of its association with unstable religious cults. [Résumé de l'ouvrage].

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Language
English (en-GB)

Creators
Ron Brunton

Contributors

Sources
In: Ron Brunton, The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia. Cambridge University Press, (p. 95-113),1989

Relation
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abandoned-narcotic/4A03E97177D7FC2B6389401AA02588F1

Coverage
Tanna

Name of newspaper
Cambridge University Press