Drinking smoke : the tobacco syndemic in Oceania /
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. This book combines an exhaustive search of historical materials on the introduction and spread of toba...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2013]
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqdpk |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction and historical background
- Tobacco as a comestible
- Pipe dreams
- Tobacco in Indigenous trade
- Tobacco as an object of exchange between islanders and foreigners
- From tobacco trade to tobacco production
- Death, taxes, and tobacco control
- Aotearoa : "land of the long white smoke cloud" : Pacific smoke inhalation case study number 1
- U.S. associated Micronesia : Pacific smoke inhalation case study number 2
- Native Hawaiians : kānaka maoli : Pacific smoke inhalation case study number 3
- Tobaccosis : the tobacco syndemic.