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Coffee and chocolate have become staples in the lives of many people today. Like other psychoactive plants, these have long histories of cultural, medicinal and religious uses in the places in which they originated. This episode discusses the ethnobotanical histories of coffee and chocolate, and examines ways in which both plants helped to transform cultures in places to which the plants and their products were introduced. We illustrate how this was due to their psychoactive properties as well as to the cultural and social significance they were assigned. These plants provide good examples of how the ways in which cultures perceive of plants, change over time.
Production Credits
Presented by: Tamara Ticktin
Themes and Content by: Isabella Abbott, Al Keali'i Chock, Will McClatchey, My Lien Nguyen, Tamara
Ticktin, and David Webb
Series Special Presentations and Content by:
Tony A.B. Cunningham, Catherine Davenport, Orou Gaoue, Lisa X. Gollin, Y. Han
Lau, Spencer Leinweber, Mark Merlin, Levon ‘ohai, Joseph Ostraff, Melinda
Ostraff, Orlo Steele, Clay Trauernicht, Art Whistler, Namaka Whitehead, and
Kawika Winter
Post Production Critique by: Al Keali'i Chock,
Momi Kamahele, Kiope Raymond, and University of Hawai`i at Manoa Botany 105
Students (Fall 2005)
Camera Work by: David Reedy, David Strauch, and
Michael B. Thomas
Video and Sound Editing by: Markus Faigle, David
Reedy, David Strauch, and Michael B. Thomas
Audio Production by: Will McClatchey and David
Reedy
Consulting by: Edo Biagoni, Kim Bridges, Pauline
Chinn, Valerie McClatchey, Hae Okimoto, Nelda Quinsell, and Ingelia White
Funding provided by: University of Hawai'i,
Department of Botany; University of Hawai'i, Information Technology Services;
University of Hawai'i, College of Natural Sciences; University of Hawai'i,
Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs; National Center for Academic
Transformation; and University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Chancellor
Inspiration from:
Isabella Abbott, Michael Balick, Brad Bennett, Brent Berlin, Paul Cox, Memory
Elvin-Lewis, Timothy Johns, Beatrice Krauss, Walter Lewis, Richard Evans
Schultes, Gail Wagner and the members of The Society for Economic Botany.
Video Options (35 min)
AVI (2008)
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Quick Time (2006)
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Readings
Standage, T. 2005. A History of the World in 6 Glasses. Walker & Company, New York
Audio
Files
Stimulating Beverages powerpoint PDF for notes