RISM Conference Papers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Cannabis 1973-1975.

Van der Merwe, Nicholaas Johannes

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Partridge, William L.

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Munir Khan, 1911-

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International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.

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Benet, Sula, 1903-1982

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Sula Benet, Ph. D., was born and educated in Warsaw, Poland. She attended the University of Warsaw where she met her husband, Samuel Benet, a law student. She graduated in 1935 with a graduate degree in ethnography and archaeology. A year later, her dissertation, Hashish in Folk Customs and Beliefs, was published by the Warsaw Society of Sciences. With the help of her mentor, Professor Poniatowski, she was also granted a scholarship for post-doctoral studies. Following her husband's untimely dea...

Green, Melvyn.

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Hasan, K. A.

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Schaeffer, Joseph H.

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Rubin, Vera D.

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On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the U.S. Peace Corps to promote international peace efforts through volunteer workers. Based on its specialization in Caribbean research, the Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM) was selected to train Peace Corps volunteers to assist and support the vocational adult education programs sponsored by the government in Jamaica, West Indies. The initial phase of the training program was conducted between April 2 - May 31, 1962 with Pea...

Khalifa, Ahmed Hamza

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Du Toit, Brian M., 1935-

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Brian Murray du Toit was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on March 2, 1935. He received a B.A. (1946) and an M.A. (1961) from the University of Pretoria and a Ph.D. (1963) from the University of Oregon. Beginning in 1966, du Toit taught at the University of Florida and conducted extensive research on various aspects of South Africa, including political parties and the Afrikaners who left South Africa in the aftermath of the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War. From the description of Brian M...

Li, Hui-lin, 1911-

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Hui-lin Li was born in Soochow, a city close to Shanghai, China, in 1911. Li earned his B.S. in Biology in 1930 from Soochow University, an American supported institution of higher learning. He earned his M.S. in Biology in 1932 from Yenching University, also an American supported university, but located in Peking. He joined the faculty at Soochow University in 1932 as an Instructor in Biology. He taught there for eight years. In 1940, he traveled to the United States, where he enro...

Ninth International Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.

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The August 1973 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Cannabis Conference convened in Chicago, Illinois. The Conference was part of the Ninth International Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. The goal of the Conference was to assemble and review the work going on in different fields of cannabis research. Interest and public concern stemming from the 1960s "drug culture" and rising awareness of drug use resulted in both the private and government funding of ...

Schultes, Richard Evans

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Miller, Ralph Dale, 1909-1989

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