The power of kava or the power of ideas? kava use and kava policy in the Northern Territory, Australia. by Peter d'Abbs

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tag=1 data=The power of kava or the power of ideas? kava use and kava policy in the Northern Territory, Australia. by Peter d'Abbs tag=2 data=d'Abbs, Peter tag=3 data=Canberra Anthropology, tag=4 data=18 tag=5 data=1/2 tag=6 data=1995 tag=7 data=166-182. tag=8 data=KAVA tag=9 data=THE POWER OF KAVA SPECIAL VOLUME tag=10 data=Throughout the 1980s, the use of kava in Aboriginal communities aroused considerable controversy, but was not subject to statutory controls. Since that time, however, a variety of legislative and regulatory mechanisms have been employed to control its supply and consumption. The author's purpose in this paper is to trace the emergence of these mechanisms, and the shifts in attitude and policy that underpinned them. The whole journal is a special volume on: The power of kava. tag=11 data=1995/1/8 tag=12 data=95/0413 tag=13 data=CAB tag=32 data=POLLOCK, NANCY%LEBOT, VINCENT%PETERSEN, GLENN%YOUNG, MICHAEL W.%TURNER, JAMES%PERMINOW, ARNE ALEKSEJ