Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Alcohol is a special form of embodied material culture and the most widely used
psychoactive agent in the world. It has been a fundamentally important social, economic …

This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between
indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists …

Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically
transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anticipated that in Africa …

This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one
driven solely by Western interests—by offering a compelling new perspective on global …

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in
social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod …

This important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty
reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries. As well as leading economists in the …

Curiously, while development studies and Africa-focused social science, have generally
circumvented African cities, Africanist historians have been 'going to town'in recent years …

Contemporary foodways and identities are in large measure the product of a long history of
colonial encounters. Reciprocally, food has been a consistently prominent material medium …

This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the
effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of …