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Author : Albert Buell Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822019650613
Author : Mac Marshall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824837969
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 tobacco in the Pacific with extensive anthropological accounts of the ways Islanders have incorporated this substance into their lives. The author uses a relatively new concept called a syndemic—the synergistic interaction of two or more afflictions contributing to a greater burden of disease in a population—to focus at once on the health of a community, political and economic structures, and the wider physical and social environment and ultimately provide an in-depth analysis of smoking’s negative health impact in Oceania. In Drinking Smoke the idea of a syndemic is applied to the current health crisis in the Pacific, where the number of deaths from coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease continues to rise, and the case is made that smoking tobacco in the form of industrially manufactured cigarettes is the keystone of the contemporary syndemic in Oceania. The author shows how tobacco consumption (particularly cigarette smoking after World War II) has become the central interstitial element of a syndemic that produces most of the morbidity and mortality Pacific Islanders suffer. This syndemic is made up of a bundle of diseases and conditions, a set of historical circumstances and events, and social and health inequities most easily summed up as “poverty.” He calls this the tobacco syndemic and argues that smoking is the crucial behavior—the “glue”—holding all of these diseases and conditions together. Drinking Smoke is the first book-length examination of the damaging tobacco syndemic in a specific world region. It is a must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, Pacific studies, history, and economic globalization, as well as for public health practitioners and those working in allied health fields. More broadly the book will appeal to anyone concerned with disease interaction, the social context of disease production, and the full health consequences of the global promotional efforts of Big Tobacco.
Author : Chris Gosden,Chantal Knowles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183948
Colonialism has shaped the world we live in today and has often been studied at a global level, but there is less understanding of how colonial relations operated locally. This book takes twentieth-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, and charts the changes in colonial relationships as they were expressed through the flow of material culture. Exploring the links between colonialism and material culture in general, the authors focus on the particular insights that museum collections can provide into social relations. Collections made by anthropologists in New Britain in the first half of the century are compared with recent fieldwork in the area to provide a particularly in-depth picture of historical change. Museum collections can reveal how people dealt with changes in the nature of community, gender relations and notions of power through the shifting use of objects in ritual and exchange. Objects, photographs and archives bring to life both the individual characters of colonial New Britain and the longer-term patterns of history. Drawing on the related disciplines of archaeology, linguistics, history and anthropology, the authors provide fresh insights into the complexities of colonial life. In particular, they show how social relationships among Melanesians, whites and other communities helped to erode distinctions between colonizers and locals, distinctions that have been maintained by scholars of colonialism in the past. This book successfully combines a specific geographical focus with an interest in the broader questions that surround colonial relations, historical change and the history of anthropology.
Author : Christian Rätsch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781594776625
The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants • Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances • Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the nature of reality • Contains 797 color photographs and 645 black-and-white illustrations In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative properties. The most powerful plants--those known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness--have traditionally been regarded as sacred. In The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants Christian Rätsch details the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, and preparation and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants. He discusses their ritual and medicinal usage, cultural artifacts made from these plants, and works of art that either represent or have been inspired by them. The author begins with 168 of the most well-known psychoactives--such as cannabis, datura, and papaver--then presents 133 lesser known substances as well as additional plants known as “legal highs,” plants known only from mythological contexts and literature, and plant products that include substances such as ayahuasca, incense, and soma. The text is lavishly illustrated with 797 color photographs--many of which are from the author’s extensive fieldwork around the world--showing the people, ceremonies, and art related to the ritual use of the world’s sacred psychoactives.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1466 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Incunabula
ISBN : UOM:39015070989242
Author : Army Medical Library (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Incunabula
ISBN : UIUC:30112010242938
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110820775
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Author : Robert H. Lowie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : CHI:28861354
Author : Chicago Natural History Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015018674179
Author : Albert Buell Lewis,Berthold Laufer,Fay-Cooper Cole,Helen Cowen Gunsaulus,John Alden Mason,Ralph Linton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : American Indians
ISBN : UIUC:30112055386186
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : OSU:32435064078835
Author : Robert Dean Craig,Frank P. King
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078238303
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Author : Field Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : CHI:23012040
Author : John Eric Sidney Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Arquitectura Maya
ISBN : WISC:89000745828