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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/9043| Title: | Kenyan Khat |
| Authors: | Roy Dilley Neil C.M., Carrier Martin R. Doornbos Carola Lentz John Lonsdale |
| Keywords: | African Social Studies Series |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Description: | This book traces from farm to consumer some of the many trajectories that one particular substance follows in its ‘social life’ (Appadurai 1986) within Kenya and beyond. The substance in question is more widely known as qat or khat, and comes from a tree with the botanical name Catha edulis (Forsskal). In Kenya many terms are applied to it, and these include the following: veve, gomba, shamba, green gold, Igembe grass, mairungi, mbachu, topong the power, and, of course, miraa |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9043 |
| ISBN: | 978 90 04 15659 3 |
| Appears in Collections: | African Studies |
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