Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke: Its Ethnobotany as Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense, and Medicine

by Marcello Pennacchio, Kayri Havens, Lara Vanessa Jefferson

Plants provide the food, shelter, medicines, and biomass that underlie sustainable life. One of the earliest and often overlooked uses of plants is the production of smoke, dating to the time of early hominid species. Plant-derived smoke has had an enormous socio-economic impact throughout human history, being burned for medicinal and recreational purposes, magico-religious ceremonies, pest control, food preservation, and flavoring, perfumes, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195370015
• ISBN13: 9780195370010
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"