Drugs and Dead People
Martha Jackson
On Wed, 26 Oct 1994, FRED wrote:
> Please give me some feedback in regards to past cultural use of drugs.
> I'm studying Archaeological Sciences at Bradford University, so I'm not
> another pot-head after street cred. I'm serious.
> I just want to start investigating this realm, and possibly do my dissertation
> on it.
> Much needs to be investigated, and any leads would be appreciated.
> Thank you,
> FRED.
>
>One interesting piece of work, which I remember as fairly
well-documented and reasoned,
is Gordon Wasson's book on his thesis that the 'soma' of the Vedas was
actually Amanita, probably muscaria. Don't remember title. Others have
picked up on this since. The Social Sciences Citation Index is very
useful for such searches.
cheers, Martha
Andrew Millard
>Please give me some feedback in regards to past cultural use of drugs.
>I'm studying Archaeological Sciences at Bradford University, so I'm not
>another pot-head after street cred. I'm serious.
>I just want to start investigating this realm, and possibly do my dissertation
>on it.
>Much needs to be investigated, and any leads would be appreciated.
>Thank you,
>FRED.
Starting points for drugs/narcotics in history/prehistory include:
Andrew Sherratt's article in "Sacred ande Profane: proceedings of a
conference on archaeology ritual and religion: Oxford 1989" edited
by Paul Garwood, David Jennings, Robin Skeates and Judith Toms on the
use of drugs in prehistory.
"Alchemy of culture: intoxicants in society" Richard Rudgley British
Museum Press 1994
"Cannibis and Culture" ed. V. Rubin The Hague, Mouton 1977
"Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology" ed. Jordan
Goodman, Paul Lovejoy and Andrew Sherratt to be published 1995 by
Routledge
(The last 3 references culled from a recent article by Andrew Sherratt
in the latest edition of the Oxford Magazine, an internal university
publication, entitled "Alice in Wonderland", discussing magic
mushrooms, cannabis, nicotine, hookahs, etc.)
Andrew
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Jason A. Ruiz
On Wed, 26 Oct 1994, FRED wrote:
> Please give me some feedback in regards to past cultural use of drugs..
>
which area of the world are you looking at?