[Linganth] CFP AAA 2016: Drugs, Coloniality, and Indigenous People

[Autumn Zellers]

CFP AAA2016 Panel: Drugs, Coloniality, and Indigenous People

Organizers: Juliana Willars (Texas State University) and Autumn Zellers
León (Temple University)

When Europeans arrived in the New World, they encountered a vast array of
psychoactive plants, such as coca, peyote, tobacco, and ayahuasca, which
Indigenous people had been using long before colonization. While settler
colonialism led to displacement and genocide of Indigenous communities, the
integration of some of these plants and their derivatives into the global
market created new paradigms of psychoactive use unprecedented in human
history. Setting these historical realities alongside each other, we seek
to analyze how Indigenous people in the Americas and throughout the world
are uniquely impacted by drug markets and drug policy. We ask: How has the
drug economy affected Indigenous people, and how have they responded? How
are Indigenous people creating new ways of understanding, using, and
producing psychoactive substances? How are Indigenous people positioned in
the rapidly changing regime of drug policy throughout the world, and how
might our analyses help to shape that engagement? We welcome papers that
address themes that include, but are not limited to:


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   alcohol, tobacco and drug use in Indigenous communities
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   addiction, prevention, and treatment in Indigenous communities
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   drug production in Indigenous territories
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   changing ritual practices
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   extraction of Indigenous plant knowledge
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   histories of anthropologists studying indigenous psychoactive use
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   Indigenous incarceration for drug crimes


If interested, please send inquiries or a 250-word abstract to
azellers at temple.edu and illumin8v at gmail.com by Wednesday, March 30, 2016.

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Autumn Zellers León
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Human (Ser humana)
Earth (Tierra)
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