Alexander S. Dawson

The Peyote Effect

From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs

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Produktbeschreibung

Alexander S. Dawson follows the history of the 'most purely intellectual' of drugs across centuries and borders and also challenges our conceptions of authenticity and cultural appropriation. He shows how the study, consumption, and spiritual meanings of peyote have been central to the constructions of indigeneity and racial difference in both Mexico and the United States. This empirically rich book will challenge readers to think critically about connections and divergences in the history of Mexico and the United States. —Pablo Piccato, Columbia University The Peyote Effect is 'drug history' at its best in that it not only tells the story of a particular drug, but in doing so it makes an enormous contribution to our knowledge in other areas. The story Dawson tells—a comparative history of peyote in the United States and Mexico—is ultimately a history of modern orientalism and how Indians continue to play a primary role in defining what being 'American' or 'Mexican' cannot be. This is in many ways a quite brilliant book. —Isaac Peter Campos, author of Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 236mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780520285422
• ISBN-10: 0520285425
• Artikelnr.: 52421289

Autorenporträt

Alexander S. Dawson is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany. He is the author of Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico, First World Dreams: Mexico Since 1989, and Latin America since Independence.