{"product_id":"the-ganja-complex-ansley-hamid-9780739103609","title":"The Ganja Complex: Rastafari and Marijuana","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Ganja Complex\u003c\/i\u003e Ansley Hamid skillfully welds together two decades of ethnographic research on marijuana in the Caribbean and the United States. Hamid juxtaposes an in-depth study of the spread of Rastafari in the 1970s with an examination of the rise of an international marijuana economy. This revisionist work departs radically from previous scholarship by identifying Rastafari, not as a messianic or millenarian cult, but as a participant in the essential functions of a community's overall economic life. It demonstrates how Rastafari has revitalized third-world economies using indigenous resources, capital, and talent, and documents the internationalization of the 5000-year-old Asian pattern of marijuana use-centered about worship of the Hindu god Shiva-that is the \"ganja complex.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ansley Hamid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0739103601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780739103609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.11h x 6.00w x 0.93d","brand":"Ansley Hamid","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120125014271,"sku":"9780739103609","price":123.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f2bf4ae-21fa-4807-80bc-ab19cde571fb.jpg?v=1687412674","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ganja-complex-ansley-hamid-9780739103609","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}