Archaeologies of Smoking, Pipes and Transatlantic Connections

This volume presents a global study of the economic and cultural global systems in which smoking materials, practices and ideas circulate, intertwine, and transform. This book compiles original work authored by researchers from the Americas, Africa, and Europe to elicit a comparative archaeology of smoking and pipes through histories and case studies from localities and regions on both sides of the Atlantic. Consequently, the book is divided into four sections divided by region. The first chapters focus on Amerindian pipes and smoking, and these are followed by research on smoking and clay pipe use in post-17th century Europe. Chapters on the production and use of clay smoking pipes in Brazil and a reflection on the influence of pipes and smoking in Senegambia comprise the final two sections respectively.

Taken together, this volume explores a wide range of issues, such as economic and cultural relations between old and new worlds; the effects of colonization in different parts of the globe; circulation of ideas, practices, and objects in hegemonic and non-hegemonic transatlantic connections; techniques and styles of making and decorating pipes; materialization and expression of ethnicities and of their blurred frontiers; changes and continuities observed in smoking materials and their inferred meanings. The book compiles fresh insights on the complex and diverse history of smoking and transatlantic economic and cultural interactions associated with it. It is of interest to both historical and pre-historical archaeologists researching material culture in several regions of the world, but also historians and anthropologists interested in material culture and global cultural systems.

Original sites, discussions and outlooks on the archaeology of smoking Dense regional overviews on materialities of past smoking practices International and diverse perspectives on transatlantic historical connections

Autorentext

Sarah Hissa is a historical archaeologist and professor of Archaeology at the Federal University of Bahian Bay (Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia / UFRB). Having published papers and a book on the subject, her doctoral dissertation on clay tobacco pipes received the SAB Excellence Award by the Brazilian Archaeological Society. She also worked for five years at the National Institute for Archaeological Heritage in Brazil. Her main research interests are archaeological material analysis, smoking culture, cultural heritage management, GIS in Archaeology.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Thinking Connections through Multiscale Studies: an Overture to Diverse Discussions on Smoking Pipes (Sarah de Barros Viana Hissa).- Chapter 2. Smoke on the Rocks: Pathways of Transformation in the Argentinian Northwest and Southern Andes (Verónica Soledad Lema).- Chapter 3. Classic Maya Tobacco Flasks, Production and Replication (Jennifer Cardinal et al).- Chapter 4. Made to Move?: Investigating Pipe Circulation Spheres and Social Contexts via Chemical Analysis (Elizabeth Bollwerk).- Chapter 5. A Dozen Deer Skins as a Present & a Handful of Pipes Each: The Local Use of Indigenous-Made Tobacco Pipes in the Atlantic Chesapeake (Julia A. King and Lauren K. McMillan).- Chapter 6. Smoking in Portuguese Historical Archaeology. Clay Pipes, Social Habits and Long Distance Relations (Tânia Casimiro and Miguel Sousa).- Chapter 7. Smoke, Sniff, Chew. Tobacco Consumption in Iceland during the 17th-19th centuries (Gavin Lucas and Jakob Orri Jónsson).- Chapter 8. Smoking Clay Pipesin Brazil: Small Conductors to Living Connections (Sarah de Barros Viana Hissa).- Chapter 9. The Golden Pipe: one Archaeology of Historical Ceramic Cachimbos in the Brazilian Amazon (Diogo M. Costa).- Chapter 10. The Clay Pipes of Valongo Wharf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Constructing and Materializing New Communities in a New World (Tania Andrade Lima and Marcos André Torres de Souza).- Chapter 11. Archaeology of a Social Plague: Smoking Clay Pipes and Transformations in Ceramic Economy in Île à Morphil (Senegambia 18th-19th Century) (Ibrahima Thiaw et al).