Kenyan Khat: The Social Life of a Stimulant
This book provides a richly detailed ethnography of Kenyan khat, tracing some of the many national and transnational trajectories this controversial stimulant takes from its centre of production in the Nyambene Hills to consumers in Kenya and throughout the world. The author, guided by his friend and khat connoisseur M'Mucheke, draws out the full economic, social and cultural significance of the substance, situating this significance within current debates on the legality of khat and the global rhetoric of the 'war on drugs'. This work explores how networks of Kenyan khat bring people of diverse backgrounds together in sometimes uneasy relati…
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- ISBN: 978-90-04-15659-3
- EAN: 9789004156593
- Produktnummer: 2726100
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 270 S.
- Masse: H24.5 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.8 cm 558 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 15
- Gewicht: 558
Über den Autor
Neil C.M. Carrier, Ph.D. (2003) in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, is a research fellow in African Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford. He has published a number of articles drawing on his research on khat.
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