ANTH106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Enema, World War I, Ceremonial Pipe
21 Aug 2018
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A drug used in v. different contexts in europe and native america. European culture: intent on trade and colonising new worlds; made a commercial product out of tobacco. Native americans: domesticated tobacco and made a sacred drug out of it. Aboriginal people already extensively used nicotine-containing drugs prior to european discovery. Local species of nicotiana (probably introduced into australia by indonesian and papua. New guinea traders) some used a nicotine-containing plant called duboisia hopwoodii. Drug made from it called pituri high nicotine content. alkali ash used to enhance action of the drug used for shamanistic purposes to achieve altered states of consciousness effects ranging from euphoria to stupor and catalepsy. South american varieties of tobacco that became dominant: Key varieties of tobacco came from south america; overlapping distribution of rustica and tabacum tobacco. Rustica tobacco produced largely for insecticide and turkish cigarettes (not used for pesticide anymore too poisonous)
