The Ganja Complex : Rastafari and Marijuana
by
Ansley Hamid
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0739103601
ISBN-13
9780739103609
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2002
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
499 grams
Dimensions
23.80 x 16.10 x 2.20 cms
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Other non-Christian religionsDrug & substance abuse: social aspectsAnthropology
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This text juxtaposes an in-depth study of the spread of Rastafari in the 1970s with an examination of the rise of an international marijuana economy. It emphasizes Rastafari as the "hearts and minds" behind both the Caribbean informal drug economy and the internationalisation of the "ganja complex"
In The Ganja Complex Ansley Hamid skillfully welds together two decades of ethnographic research on marijuana in the Caribbean and the United States. Hamid juxtaposes an in-depth study of the spread of Rastafari in the 1970s with an examination of the rise of an international marijuana economy. This revisionist work departs radically from previous scholarship by identifying Rastafari, not as a messianic or millenarian cult, but as a participant in the essential functions of a community''s overall economic life. It demonstrates how Rastafari has revitalized third-world economies using indigenous resources, capital, and talent, and documents the internationalization of the 5000-year-old Asian pattern of marijuana use—centered about worship of the Hindu god Shiva—that is the "ganja complex."
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