Henrique Soares Carneiro, Transformaciones del significado de la palabra “droga”: de las especias coloniales al prohibicionismo contemporáneo
Revista Ciencias y Humanidades August 13, 2024 David Herrera Castrillón, Henrique Soares Carneiro
Henrique Carneiro's text analyzes how the term 'drug' has acquired multiple and contradictory meanings over time, ranging from poison to medicine and from native substances to phytotherapeutic remedies. It also examines the conflicts between Indigenous knowledge and its appropriation by colonial society, arguing that colonial powers extracted and repurposed Indigenous plant-based knowledge while suppressing the original cultural frameworks.