Coca Chewing: A New Perspective

Burchard, Roderick E.

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“…have all been documented for this purpose. The subjective effect on human consumers is described as energizing and mood enhancing, as well as providing a sense of well-being, while suppressing feelings of appetite and thirst [18].…”

Section: History and Evolution Of The Erythroxylum Genusmentioning

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Erythroxylum in Focus: An Interdisciplinary Review of an Overlooked Genus

Restrepo

Saenz

Jara-Muñoz³

et al. 2019

Molecules

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The genus Erythroxylum contains species used by indigenous people of South America long before the domestication of plants. Two species, E. coca and E. novogranatense, have been utilized for thousands of years specifically for their tropane alkaloid content. While abuse of the narcotic cocaine has impacted society on many levels, these species and their wild relatives contain untapped resources for the benefit of mankind in the form of foods, pharmaceuticals, phytotherapeutic products, and other high-value plant-derived metabolites. In this review, we describe the current state of knowledge of members within the genus and the recent advances in the realm of molecular biology and biochemistry.

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Section: History and Evolution Of The Erythroxylum Genusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Erythroxylum in Focus: An Interdisciplinary Review of an Overlooked Genus

Restrepo

Saenz

Jara-Muñoz³

et al. 2019

Molecules

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“…As early as the mid-1970s, initial information was available suggesting that the European fixation on cocaine had misled us concerning the coca leaf's physiological effects (Hanna 1974, Lobb 1974, Martin 1970. A pioneering essay by Burchard (1975) suggested that the difference may be one of kind rather than degree, insofar as active ingredients other than cocaine are crucial. Despite these findings, Flores Ochoa was obliged to report (1979b) that coca suppression in Lima had gone far enough to create a gangsterdominated black market.…”

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Andean Ethnology in the 1970s: A Retrospective

Salomón

1982

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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The 1970s witnessed an outpouring of research on the Andean cultural tradition sufficient to place Andean studies among the well-established regional subspecialties of anthropology. Among the historic factors converging to produce this abundance was the emergence of a generation of fieldworkers trained by ethnohistorians such as John Murra, John Rowe, Herman Trimborn, and R. T. Zuidema. Their understanding of historical and intellectual activity in past Andean communities made it possible, even in the heyday of development theories, to appreciate the modern Andean tradition as an active and creative rather than merely resistant presence. At the same time, events within the Andean republics called forth new interest in the indigenous tradition. In Peru the Velasco regime (1968–75), with its far-reaching intervention into rural institutions, received both support and criticism from those whose knowledge of the Quechua countryside seemed suddenly valuable. In Ecuador the post-1974 oil boom awakened hope for a more “integrated” national state, thereby provoking debate (as yet inconclusive) between pluralist and assimilationist approaches to the problems of the multiethnic highlands. In all the Andean countries regional and national research institutions with periodicals and monographs of their own took form. Generally outside universities, and sometimes with support from sectors of the Catholic Church increasingly open to the study of local belief, they produced distinctive schools of thought fruitfully different from the academic tradition proper. Regional meetings such as the Congresos del Hombre Andino indicated the coalescence of an Andean field of study across national boundaries. In some places, self-mobilization of Andean communities and experimentation with bilingual media and institutions raised hopes for a definition of the Andean situation from the Andean side, a definition not precast in terms familiar to the Hispanic-oriented outsider.

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Cultural Constructions of Efficacy

Etkin¹

1988

The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries

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Coca Chewing: A New Perspective

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Erythroxylum in Focus: An Interdisciplinary Review of an Overlooked Genus

Erythroxylum in Focus: An Interdisciplinary Review of an Overlooked Genus

Andean Ethnology in the 1970s: A Retrospective

Cultural Constructions of Efficacy

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