Tom Yardley: 1 book
Why We Take Drugs
Seeking Excess and Communion in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In older cultures, the use of intoxicant drugs was integrated into the rhythms of social existence and bounded by rituals and taboos that ensured their dangerous forces were contained and channelled. In modern western societies, by contrast, the state and the institutions of society have washed their...
