Pills, potions, products: Kava's transformations in new and nontraditional contexts

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-265

  Baker, Jonathan D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Commoditization; Globalization; Kava; Pharmaceuticalization; Piper methysticum

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; DRUG; GLOBALIZATION; MEDICINE;

PIPER METHYSTICUM; PIPERACEAE;

EID: 84864710619     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: 15279464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2012.0026     Document Type: Article

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