Mar 28, 2024  
2022-2023 CNM Catalog, Volume 54 
    
2022-2023 CNM Catalog, Volume 54 [The CNM Academic Year includes Fall, Spring, Summer Terms]

ANTH 2265 - The Anthropology of Drugs

3 credit hour(s)
Prerequisite:   
This survey course explores the nature and use of mind-altering drugs from a cross-cultural perspective. Topics covered in this class include the varieties and effects of mind-altering drugs around the world, socio-cultural contexts and functions of drugs such as religious, medicinal, and recreational usages, varieties of social control of drugs, and the political economy of world trade in both licit and illicit drugs.

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