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Why we take drugs [electronic resource] : seeking excess and communion in the modern world / Tom Yardley.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.Description: 167 pISBN:
  • 9780203124819 (e-book : PDF)
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  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Sacrificing the rational body : the transgressive economy of intoxication -- 3. Seeking the impossible : expenditure beyond necessity -- 4. Traditional time and modern time -- 5. From bodies in time to time in the body -- 6. Theorizing community -- 7. Intoxication liminality and community formation -- 8. Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-161) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Sacrificing the rational body : the transgressive economy of intoxication -- 3. Seeking the impossible : expenditure beyond necessity -- 4. Traditional time and modern time -- 5. From bodies in time to time in the body -- 6. Theorizing community -- 7. Intoxication liminality and community formation -- 8. Conclusion.

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