| #4916452 in Books | Ansley Hamid | 2002-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.38 x.86 x6.32l,1.07 | File Name: 0739103601 | 256 pages | The Ganja Complex Rastafari and Marijuana
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Engagingly written|By A Customer|Hamid's welcome study provides a comparison of ganja use and its distribution in San Fernando, Trinidad, and Brooklyn, New York. Chapters based on ethnography are engagingly written. Hamid does an excellent job of conveying Trinidadian street life in the 1970s. His treatment of Rastafarianism as a belief system, however, is dissapointing, and|About the Author|Ansley Hamid is Associate Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York.
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 f...
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