Cultures of Intoxication

Articles include: Intoxication and Sociality: The Symposium in the Ancient Greek World; 'Tuned Out or Tuned In': Spirituality and Drug Use in Global Times; Indians and Drunkenness in Spanish America; Alcohol in the Islamic Middle East: Ambivalence and Ambiguity; Modernity, Tradition, and Intoxication: Comparative Lessons from South America and West Africa; Double Vision: The Ambivalent Imagery of Drunkenness in Early Modern Europe; Health, Intoxication and Civil Conversation in Renaissance England; Psychedelic Drugs and the Problem of Experience; Target America: Visual Culture, Neuroimaging, and the 'Hijacked Brain' Theory of Addiction; The Taste of Opium: Science, Monopoly and Japanese Colonization in Taiwan, 1895-1945; Material Culture and 'Political Drinking' in Seventeenth-Century England; Wine, Corruption, and the Politics of Intoxication in Eighteenth-Century Stockholm.