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Published: 01 February 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478004332
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0433-2
Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Published: 08 August 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822390350-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9035-0
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By Richard DeGrandpre
Published: 06 November 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822388197-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8819-7
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-129
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... In recent decades, cocaine traffcking and the U.S.-promoted War on Drugs in the Andes have stigmatized the coca leaf in public awareness. But in the hilly, subtropical Yungas region of La Paz, the cultivation of coca is an age-old activity with deep cultural roots. The ethnographic work...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-130
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-131
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... In the U.S. War on Drugs in the Andes, one of the stated aims was to eliminate the production of raw material for cocaine, although in Bolivia the traditional cultivation and consumption of coca leaf was so well established that it would be impossible to eradicate the crop completely. The 1988...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 01 January 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387503-063
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8750-3
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373865-083
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7386-5
Series: Latin America in Translation
Published: 24 September 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383932-089
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8393-2
Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Published: 10 June 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394204-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9420-4
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-071
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... While coca leaf has been an integral part of Andean civilization since long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, it has been the target of attacks by Catholic priests, moralizing modernizers, and international drug warriors over centuries. In 1961, the United Nations Single Convention...
Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Published: 28 July 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376361-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7636-1
Published: 01 February 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478004332-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0433-2
Published: 01 February 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478004332-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0433-2
Published: 01 February 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478004332-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0433-2
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 08 September 2008
DOI: 10.1215/9780822381440-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8144-0
Published: 29 October 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021957-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2195-7
Published: 29 October 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021957
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2195-7
Published: 12 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373209-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7320-9
... Turning to the legal and social history around the theft and circulation of the popular WWII calypso tune “Rum and Coca-Cola,” this chapter explores US militarization in the West Indies and its reciprocal social, political, economic, and cultural effects. Specifically, this essay illustrates how...
Published: 12 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7320-9
... “Rum and Coca-Cola” continentalism calypso militarization Trinidad ...