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Drinking Smoke: The Tobacco Syndemic in Oceania
Mac Marshall
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Description for Drinking Smoke: The Tobacco Syndemic in Oceania
Hardcover. Drawing together a wide variety of material on the history, ethnography, and medical anthropology of tobacco in the Pacific islands, this book presents how the introduction and spread of tobacco affected the lives of islanders. The study illustrates the Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; JFFH1; JHMC; MMZR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Univ of Hawaii Pr
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824836856
SKU
V9780824836856
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