The Origins of Cocaine

Drawing on concepts from both history and anthropology, The Origins of Cocaine explores how three countries - Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia - with divergent different mid-century political trajectories ended up with parallel outcomes in illicit frontier economies and cocalero cultures. Bringing together transnational, national, and local analyses, the volume provides an in-depth examination of the deep origins of drug economics in the Americas. It will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students of anthropology, history and environmental studies.