Week 5

The poignant final line of Alison Spedding’s essay, “The Cultural Life of Coca”, encapsulates the author’s representation of coca as an example of popular culture in the Bolivian Yungas: “The coca field can… be seen as a social nexus that unites all these diverse elements and activities: it is a total social fact” (591). IContinue reading “Coca and Social Life in the Bolivian Yungas”