Drinking Smoke : : The Tobacco Syndemic in Oceania /

Drinking Smoke : : The Tobacco Syndemic in Oceania / / Mac Marshall.

Tobacco kills 5 million people every year and that number is expected to double by the year 2020. Despite its enormous toll on human health, tobacco has been largely neglected by anthropologists. Drinking Smoke combines an exhaustive search of historical materials on the introduction and spread of t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Marshall, Mac,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 21 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Situating Tobacco Chronologically Vis-À-Vis Oceania
  • Part One. The History, Economy, and Ethnography of Tobacco in Oceania
  • Chapter 1. Introduction and Historical Background
  • Chapter 2. Tobacco as a Comestible
  • Chapter 3. Pipe Dreams
  • Chapter 4. Tobacco in Indigenous Trade
  • Chapter 5. Tobacco as an Object of Exchange Between Islanders and Foreigners
  • Chapter 6. From Tobacco Trade to Tobacco Production
  • Chapter 7. Death, Taxes, and Tobacco Control
  • Part Two. The Medical Anthropology of Tobacco in Oceania
  • Chapter 8. Aotearoa: "Land of the Long White Smoke Cloud": Pacific Smoke Inhalation Case Study Number 1
  • Chapter 9. U.S. Associated Micronesia: Pacific Smoke Inhalation Case Study Number 2
  • Chapter 10. Native Hawaiians: Kānaka Maoli: Pacific Smoke Inhalation Case Study Number 3
  • Chapter 11. Tobaccosis: The Tobacco Syndemic
  • Notes
  • References Cited
  • Index

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