Tobacco

Bibliographic Data

ID22367196
AuthorsAndrew Russell (0000-0003-4700-8029, Durham University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages1-8
Publication date2018-09-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1661
OpenAlexW4245268372
ISBN9781118924396
LanguageEN
References cited11

The study of the relationship between people and tobacco is of more than ethnobotanical interest; it spans many fundamental issues of current concern for anthropologists in general and for medical anthropologists in particular. These include topics such as globalization, transnational and state‐sponsored corporate capitalism, and the use and abuse of narcotic substances, as well as key scholarly themes such as material culture, agency, semiotics, intersubjectivity, and identity. Anthropologists offer fresh and engaging perspectives on tobacco in historical, contemporary, and future contexts. A useful heuristic for considering how anthropologists study tobacco is to consider research in this field across four overlapping domains. Anthropologies of (and in some cases for) tobacco as a product counterpoint effectively with anthropologies that facilitate and critique tobacco control as an exemplar of public health strategies that are structural as much as behavioral

Epistemology · Globalization · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Tobacco control · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Medicine · Sex work and related issues