Tobacco use by Native North Americans : sacred smoke and silent killer

Winter, Joseph C. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0806132620 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780806132624 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xviii, 454 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
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Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-434) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. 1. Traditional Uses of Tobacco by Native Americans -- 1. Introduction to the North American Tobacco Species / Joseph C. Winter -- 2. Traditional Uses of Tobacco by Native Americans / Joseph C. Winter -- 3. North American Indigenous Nicotiana Use and Tobacco Shamanism: The Early Documentary Record, 1520-1660 / Alexander von Gernet -- 4. Ethnobotanical Notes from Zuni Pueblo / Carol B. Brandt -- Pt. 2. Description of the North American Tobaccos -- 5. Botanical Description of the North American Tobacco Species / Joseph C. Winter -- 6. Out of California: Cultural Geography of Western North American Tobacco / Julia E. Hammett -- Pt. 3. The Archaeobotanical Study of Tobacco -- 7. Tobacco Use, Ecology, and Manipulation in the Prehistoric and Historic Southwestern United States / Karen R. Adams and Mollie S. Toll -- 8. Tobacco on the Plains: Historical Use, Ethnographic Accounts, and Archaeological Evidence / Mary J. Adair -- 9. Tobacco in Prehistoric Eastern North America / Gail E. Wagner -- Pt. 4. The Identification of Tobacco Pollen -- 10. Prehistoric Tobacco Pollen in Southwestern Colorado: Distribution and Possible Contamination / Linda Scott Cummings -- 11. Morphological Studies of New Mexico Solanaceae Pollen / Richard G. Holloway and Glenna Dean -- 12. Morphological Distinctiveness of Nicotiana Pollen and the Potential for Identifying Prehistoric Southwest Tobacco Use through Pollen Analysis / Jannifer W. Gish -- Pt. 5. Evolution of the Use of Tobacco by Native Americans -- 13. From Earth Mother to Snake Woman: The Role of Tobacco in the Evolution of Native American Religious Organization / Joseph C. Winter -- 14. Food of the Gods: Biochemistry, Addiction, and the Development of Native American Tobacco Use / Joseph C. Winter -- Pt. 6. The Negative Health Effects of Tobacco Use -- 15. Health Effects of Tobacco Use by Native Americans: Past and Present / Jonathan M. Samet -- 16. The Huichol Indians, Tobacco, and Pesticides / Patricia Diaz-Romo and Samuel Salinaz Alvarez -- 17. Native Americans and Tobacco: Deer Person's Gift or Columbus's Curse? / Joseph C. Winter, Glenn W. Solomon and Robert F. Hill / [et al.] -- 18. Tricky Tokes, Those Coyote Smokes: How Coyote Learned the True Power of Tobacco / Lawrence A. Shorty.