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Vient de paraître The African Roots of Marijuana de Chris S. Duvall aux Duke University Press

Le 27 octobre 2019 à 19h56

Vient de paraître The African Roots of Marijuana de Chris S. Duvall aux Duke University Press, 2019, 360 p. ISBN : 978-1-4780-0394-6 Prix : 27,95 $.

"After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa’s importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world’s most ubiquitous plants."



Chris S. Duvall is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of Cannabis.

Ouvrage signalé, sous la forme d’une recension de Vincent Hiribarren, sur le Blog Libé Africa4 de Vincent Hiribarren et Jean-Pierre Bat :
http://libeafrica4.blogs.liberation.fr/2019/10/27/comment-lafrique-transforme-lusage-du-cannabis/
https://twitter.com/bixhiribarren/status/1188381248458244096?s=03