Re: Hazia

From: Alison Place <alison_place_at_eBK2ecfZDBOk7mvXtIbvd0bo7UPOJb0cmxf_zGTJVZ9SjixESoHnyieweQ1IiT6>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:03:51 -0800 (PST)

    Main problem with something that is part of the culture, as coca certainly is in the Andes, and hazia is in our game, is that no-one local sees a reason to quit raising or using it. In fact, it will be seen as an attempt to destroy the native culture, and even those who normally don't give a damn may start getting quite possessive.

     Funny thing about I remember seeing on a documentary about some anthropologists investigating some mass graves. It showed an Andean shaman performing a ritual cleansing before permitting exhumation. The narration said that he was doing this by waving tobacco over the graves. Not a chance! The branch was definitely coca leaves. Political correctness had struck again.

Alison



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