{"product_id":"smoking-and-culture-the-archaeology-of-tobacco-pipes-in-eastern-north-america-paperback","title":"Smoking and Culture: The Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSean M. Rafferty\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRob Mann\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSmoking and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding example of what is possible when new methods and theoretical frameworks are applied to tobacco pipes.\" --\u003ci\u003eVirginia Magazine of History and Biography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Smoking has played an important role in the cultures of North America since ancient times. Because of the ceremonial and ritual aspects of the practice in Native American societies, smoking pipes are important cultural artifacts. The essays in \u003ci\u003eSmoking and Culture \u003c\/i\u003econstitute the first sustained interpretive study of smoking pipes, focusing on the cultural significance of smoking both before and after European contact. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pipes lend themselves to anthropological as well as archaeological analysis in part because they are more ceremonial than utilitarian. Thus, while their styles and provenance can reveal something about trade relationships, cultural transfer, and aesthetic influences, they also provide important information about the nature of ritual in a particular society. As the contributors demonstrate, pipes offer a window through which to view the symbolic, ideological, and political roles that smoking has played in North American societies from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The eleven essays included range widely over time and region, beginning with a case study of pipes and mortuary practices in the Ohio Valley during the Early Woodland Period. Subsequent chapters examine stone pipes from coastal North Carolina during the Late Woodland Period and the role pipes played in interregional interaction among protohistoric Native American groups in the Midwest and Northeast. Other essays explore the variety of cultural and political uses of pipes during the period of European contact. The final section of the book focuses on smoking in Euro-American contexts of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The innovative interpretive approaches taken by the contributors and the broad historical perspective will make \u003ci\u003eSmoking and Culture \u003c\/i\u003ea model for examining other categories of material culture, and the volume will be welcomed by anthropologists and historians as well as archaeologists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sean M. Rafferty is associate professor of anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. \u003cbr\u003e Rob Mann is the southeast regional archaeologist for Louisiana and is based in the Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSean M. Rafferty is associate professor of anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. \u003cbr\u003e Rob Mann is the southeast regional archaeologist for Louisiana and is based in the Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52766514381107,"sku":"9781621902324","price":41.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/iZzsZicf_Y9781621902324.webp?v=1764652650","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/smoking-and-culture-the-archaeology-of-tobacco-pipes-in-eastern-north-america-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}