The Culture of Smoking: The Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America
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 The Culture of Smoking constitute the first sustained interpretive study of smoking pipes, focusing on the cultural significance of smoking both before and after European contact.\ Pipes lend themselves to anthropological as well as archaeological...
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Smoking pipes have been used extensively by both prehistoric and historic archaeologists as cultural and chronological markers, but rarely to cast light on the societies that used them. Therefore, archaeologists attending the 2001 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans held a symposium on the matter. The 11 papers that emerged explore such aspects as men and women, pipes and power in native New England; the transformational power of fur trade rituals; women and iconography in 17th-century Dutch clay pipes found in New York City, and the production and consumption of smoking pipes along the Tobacco Coast. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction : smoking pipes and culture1"They pass their lives in smoke, and at death fall into the fire" : smoking pipes and mortuary ritual during the early woodland period12Stone pipes of the southern coastal region of North Carolina : smoke, ritual, and contact433Pipes, leadership, and interregional interaction in protohistoric midwestern and northeastern North America734Men and women, pipes and power in native New England1255Smoking pipes : an archaeological measure of Native American cultural stability and survival in eastern North America, A.E. 1500-18501436Smokescreens : tobacco, pipes, and the transformational power of fur trade rituals1657"Neat and artificial pipes" : base metal trade pipes of the northeastern Indians1858The Tudor rose and the fleurs-de-lis : women and iconography in seventeenth-century Dutch clay pipes found in New York City2079Home rulers, red hands, and radical journalists : clay pipes and the negotiation of working-class Irish/Irish American identity in late-nineteenth-century Paterson, New Jersey24110The production and consumption of smoking pipes along the tobacco coast27311Red clay tobacco pipes : a petrographic window into seventeenth-century economics at Jamestown, Virginia, and New England305
