Bibliography on the anthropology and the ethnography of kava (kawa-kawa)
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BRUNTON RON, 1979, Kava and the daily dissolution of society on Tanna, New Hebrids, Mankind, 12: 93-103.
BRUNTON RON, 1989, The abandoned narcotic: Kawa and cultural instability in Melanesia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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CAWTE J., 1986, Parameters of kava used as a challenge to alcohol, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 20: 70-76.
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CHINNERY E.W.P., 1922, Piper methysticum in betel chewing, Man, 22: 24-27.
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CROWE P., 1986, “Pince son ombilic et le mien vibrera”: chant muet, kava et rêves dans la musique mélanésienne, Anuario Musical, 39/40 : 217-238.
CROWLEY TERRY, 1994, Proto Who Drank Kava?, in: A. K. Pawley and M. D. Ross (Eds.), Austronesian Terminologies: Continuities and Change, Pacific Linguistics C-127, Australian National University, Canberra, pp.87-100.
CROWLEY TERRY, 1995, The National Drink and the National Language in Vanuatu, Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 104, pp. 7-22.
CUZENT G., 1856, Du kawa de Noukouhiva, Iles Marquises, Revue Coloniale, 2° s., 15 : 582-583.
CUZENT G., 1858, Du kawa, kava ou ava de Tahiti et des Iles Marquises, Revue Coloniale, 2° s., 20 : 630-646.
DEHIL J.R., 1932, Kava and kava-drinking, Primitive Man, 5 : 61-68.
EMERSON O.P., 1903, The awa habit of the Hawaiians, The Hawaiian Annual, pp. 130-140.
FAVOLE ADRIANO, 2000, Tra locale e globale. Il rito kava in Polinesia, in: P. Scarduelli (cur.), Antropologia del rito. Interpretazioni e spiegazioni, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, pp. 190-214.
FELDMAN H., 1980, Informal kava drinking in Tonga, Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 89, pp. 101-104.
FINAU S.A., J.M. STANHOPE, I.A.M. PRIOR, 1982, Kava, alcohol and tobacco consumption among Tongans with urbanization, Social Science and Medicine, 16: 35-41.
FORD C.S., 1967, Ethnographical aspects of kava, in: D.H. Efron et al. (Eds.), Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs, Public Health Service Publs., Washington, pp. 162-173.
GAILLOT M., 1962, Le rite du kava Futunien, Études Mélanésiennes, 4° s., 14/17: 95-105.
GAJDUSEK D.C., 1967, Recent observations on the use of kava in the Newe Hebrids, in: D.H. Efron et al. (Eds.), Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs, Public Health Service Publs., Washington, pp. 119-125.
GATTY RORNALD, 1956, Kava: Polynesian beverage shrub, Economic Botany, 10: 241-249.
GREGORY R.J., J.E. GREGORY, J.P. PECK, 1981, Kava and prohibition in Tanna, Vanuatu, British Journal of Addiction, 76: 299-313.
HADDON A.C., 1916, Kava drinking in New Guinea, Man, 16: 145-152.
HAMBRUCH P., 1917, Die Kawa auf Ponape, Studien und Forschungen zur Menschen und Völkerkunde, 14: 107-115.
HOLMES L.D., 1961, The Samoan kava ceremony. Its forms and functions, Science of Man, 1: 46-51.
HOLMES L.D., 1967, The function of kava in modern Samoan culture, in: D.H. Efron et al. (Eds.), Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs, Public Health Service Publs., Washington, pp. 107-118.
HOUGH W., 1904, Kava drinking as practiced by the Papuans and Polynesians, Smithsonian Instit. Miscell.Coll., 2: 85-92.
KEAULANA K.A., S. WHITNEY, 1990, Ka wai kau mai o Mleka (water from America): The intoxication of the Hawaiian people, Contemporary Drug Problems, 17: 161-194.
LEACH E., 1972, The Structure of Symbolism. Kava Ceremony in Tonga, in: J.S. La Fontaine (ed.), The Interpretation of Ritual, Tavistock, London.
LEBOT VINCENT, 1989, L’histoire du kava commence par sa découverte, Journal de la Sociétée des Oceanistes, 88/89: 89-114.
LEBOT VINCENT, P. CABALION, J. LÉVESQUE, 1986, Le kava des ancêtres est-il l’ancêtre du kava?, Naika, J.Vanuatu Nat.Sci.Soc., 23: 1-11.
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LINDSTROM LAMONT, 2004, History, Folklore, traditional and Current Uses of Kava, in: SINGH N. YADHU (Ed.), Kava. From Ethnology to Pharmacology, CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 10-28.
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LUDERS DAVID, 1996, Legend and History: Did the Vanuatu-Tonga Kava Trade Cease in A.D. 1447?, Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 105, pp. 287-310.
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MALAUULU J., S. SAIFOLOI, S. FALANAI, A. SIITIA, L. SAMATUA, 1974, Kawa: Legends, ceremony, how-to-make and serve it, Faasamoa Pea, 1(2): 20-37.
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O’RORKE M., 1856, Du kawa-kawa ou Piper methysticum, Revue Coloniale, 2°s., vol. 16, pp. 85-92.
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PRESCOTT J., G. McCALL (Eds.), 1988, Kava use and abuse in Australia and the South Pacific, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
SERPENTI L.M., 1969, On the social significance of an intoxicant (kava in New Guinea), Tropical Man, 2: 31-44.
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SMITH S. PERCY, 1920, Kava Drinking Ceremonies Among the Samoans and A Boat Voyage round ‘Upolu Island, Samoa, Journal of the Polynesian Society, Suppl. vol. 29, pp. 1-21.
SOFER MICHAEL, 1985, Yaqona and peripheral economy, Pacific Viewpoint, 26: 415-436.
STEINMETZ E.F., 1960, Kava kava (Piper methysticum), famous drug plant of the South Sea Islands, Level Press, San Francisco.
TAOFINU’U P., 1974, The kava ceremony is a prophecy, Faasamoa Pea, 1: 41-66.
TITCOMB M., 1948, Kava in Hawaii, Journal of Polynesian Society, 57: 105-171.
TURNER J.W., 1986, The water of life: kava ritual and the logic of sacrifice, Ethnology, 25: 203-214.
VISSER P. EDWARD, 1994, Skeletal Evidence of Kava Use in Prehistoric Fiji, Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 103, pp. 299-317.
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I would like to corredct a mistake:
SOFER F., 1982, Yaqona and peripheral economy, Pacific Viewpoint, 26: 415-436.
Should be: Sofer M. 1985, Yaqona and peripheral economy, Pacific Viewpoint, 26: 415-436.
Thank you! If you wrote more on kava, please let me know, in such a way to up-to-date this bibliographic list. Indeed I don’t have your article, and I should be grateful to receive it. One more think: if you like, I’ll be happy to give space to the full-text of your article (in pdf), and not only the bibliographic item.