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The Hashish Dialogues: An Unintended Ethnography of Hashish Use in Greece

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Pages:400
ISBN:1-4955-1014-X
978-1-4955-1014-4
Price:$199.95
"This 'unintended ethnography' includes analysis by Professor Lambros Comitas of excerpts from interviews conducted during the 1970s in Greece with hashish users and non-users, and also excerpted words and phrases offering definitions and additional details to aid comprehension." -Note from the Editor

Table of Contents

Prolegomena
The setting
1. The gathering
2. Shaping a habit / asyrmatos
3. A habitat shaped / tavros
The world of the hasikli
4. Tekedes, hasish, hasiklides
5. Opprobrium and persecution
The domestic scene
6. Marriage, mating, and other imbroglios
Epilogue: Finita la musica passata la fiesta
7. Ruminations