Culture on Drugs
Subtitle: Narco-Cultural Studies of High Modernity
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: July 24, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780719055980
Subjects: Drug addiction & substance abuse; Literary studies: general; Social theory; Drug Abuse; Popular Culture; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Psychopathology - Addiction; Social Science / Popular Culture; General; Popular Culture - General; Sociology - General
Description: Reconsidering the place of drugs in our culture and the cultural crises they are perceived to endanger, 'Culture on Drugs' argues that the ideas and concepts by which modernity has attained its measure of self-understanding are themselves, in various ways the products of encounters with drugs and their effects.