Kenyan Khat

The Social Life of a Stimulant
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15659-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

This book provides a richly detailed ethnography of Kenyan khat, tracing some of the many national and transnational trajectories this controversial stimulant takes from its centre of production in the Nyambene Hills to consumers in Kenya and throughout the world. The author, guided by his friend and khat connoisseur M'Mucheke, draws out the full economic, social and cultural significance of the substance, situating this significance within current debates on the legality of khat and the global rhetoric of the 'war on drugs'. The work explores how networks of Kenyan khat bring people of diverse backgrounds together in sometimes uneasy relationships, and highlights the vast cluster of meanings this remarkable commodity has accrued in its 'social life'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carrier, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Neil C.M. Carrier, Ph.D. (2003) in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, is a research fellow in African Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford. He has published a number of articles drawing on his research on khat.