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Anthropology of Tobacco

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Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds

Anthropology of Tobacco

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Anthropology of Tobacco book

Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds
ByAndrew Russell
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 20 February 2021
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351050197
Pages 380
eBook ISBN 9781351050197
Subjects Health and Social Care, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Russell, A. (2019). Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351050197

ABSTRACT

Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive commodity, tobacco becomes a powerful player in a global adventure involving people, corporations and public health.

Bringing together a range of perspectives from the social and natural sciences as well as the arts and humanities, Anthropology of Tobacco weaves stories together from a range of historical, cross-cultural and literary sources and empirical research. These combine with contemporary anthropological theories of agency and cross-species relationships to offer fresh perspectives on how an apparently humble plant has progressed to world domination, and the consequences of it having done so. It also considers what needs to happen if, as some public health advocates would have it, we are seriously to imagine ‘a world without tobacco’.

This book presents students, scholars and practitioners in anthropology, public health and social policy with unique and multiple perspectives on tobacco-human relations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |22 pages

Introduction: re-imagining tobacco

part Part I|20 pages

Life

chapter Chapter 1|1 pages

Shamanic dreaming

chapter Chapter 2|24 pages

First contact

chapter Chapter 3|23 pages

Counterblastes and compromises

chapter Chapter 4|25 pages

Tobacco and Enlightenment

chapter Chapter 5|26 pages

Enslavement of all sorts

chapter Chapter 6|26 pages

Vogue: tobacco worlds in 19th century Europe

chapter 7|25 pages

Enchantment and risk: tobacco, 1900–1950

chapter 8|27 pages

Corporate voices: tobacco, 1950–2000

part Part II|27 pages

Times

chapter 9|1 pages

Host and parasite

chapter 10|22 pages

Becoming Fresh: a regional platform against tobacco

chapter 11|26 pages

Becoming the FCTC: global solutions to a global problem

chapter 12|24 pages

‘Imagine a world without tobacco’

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