My name is Pamela Watson. I am an Australian anthropologist and pharmacist. I am interested in drugs through time and space, not just specific contemporary issues.
Some of my publications include:
Watson, P
1983 This precious Foliage: a Study of the Aboriginal Psychoactive drug, Pituri. Oceania Monograph No 26 . 65 pps.Oceania Publications, University of Sydney.
Watson, P. , O. Luanratana and W.J. Griffin.
1983The Pharmacology of Pituri. Journal of Ethnopharmacology V.8 pps 308-311.
Watson, P1984 Drug-Running: the Lubricant for Inter-regional Trading Patterns? In Graeme Ward (ed) Archaeology at Anzaas
Canberra, Australian National University
1987a Drugs in trade. In Lamont Lindstrom (ed.). Drugs in Western Pacific Societies: Relations of Substance. Association of Social Anthropologists in Oceania Monograph No. 11. 16 pps Honolulu: University Press of Honolulu
1994 Bush Medicines. In D. Horton (ed.) The Enclycopedia of Aboriginal Australia. Canberra. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
1998 Frontier Lands and Pioneer Legends. .How pastoralistsgained Karuwali Land. Sydney. Allen & Unwin( short-listed for the Age Non-fiction Book of the Year Award)
2005. Passed Away? In Dirk Moses (ed.) Genocide and settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian Society. New York: Berghahn Books.
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