Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds

ISBN-13: 9781138485143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 380 str.

Andrew Russell

Opis

Anthropology of Tobacco makes tobacco the centre of its own, contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive commodity, tobacco becomes a powerful player in a global adventure involving people, corporations and public health.

　

 

O autorze

Andrew Russell is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Durham University, UK, where he is a member of the Anthropology of Health Research Group. His research and teaching spans the sciences, arts and humanities, and mixes both theoretical and applied aspects. He has conducted research in Nepal, the UK and worldwide. Earlier books include The Social Basis of Medicine, which won the British Medical Association’s student textbook of the year award in 2010, and a number of edited volumes, the latest of which (co-edited with Elizabeth Rahman) is The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America.