Anthropology of Tobacco Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds

Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commodities 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...

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Main Author: Russell, Andrew (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2019
Series:Routledge Studies in Public Health
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