Smokefree : a social, moral and political atmosphere / Simone Dennis

Contributor(s): Dennis, Simone [author]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016Description: x, 198 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472569202; 1472569202; 9781472569196; 1472569199Subject(s): Smoking | Smoking -- Social aspects | Smoking | Smoking -- Social aspectsLOC classification: HV5740 | .D46 2016Other classification: 394.14
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: A fascinating atmosphere -- Ethnographic vignettes -- The strength (or weakness) of vignettes -- A note on Australian specificity and broader relevance -- Introduction: There's something in the air -- Examining smoking in the era of smokefree: Public health and anthropology -- The anthropology of smoking (a smokefree anthropology) -- Anthropology's smoker -- A new approach to smoking and smokefree -- An argument for inchoateness -- The structure -- pt. ONE The lay of the smokefree land -- 1. The difference between tobacco and tomatoes -- Introduction -- On `atmospheres' -- Some thoughts on an uninsurable monkey -- Public health interventions and the construction of the smoker -- The Benson and Hedges World Series Cricket, 1988 -- Smokefree places -- The nuances of public place legislation -- Legislating the air -- 2. Oppositionary pairings and ruinous smoke -- Introduction -- Oppositionary pair: Right and wrong
Note continued: Oppositionary pair: Public health and tobacco companies -- Oppositionary pair: A long life or an untimely death -- Oppositionary pair: The time of smoking and the time free of smoking -- Oppositionary pair: Two spatial states -- 3. Reimagining the smoker -- Introduction -- The smoker, doubly constructed -- Public health's rational agent -- Anthropological reformulation of the smoker? -- Michelle the rational smoker -- Michelle, reanalysed -- Putting things that are meant to be held apart, together: The internal Inconsistency of smoking -- Come off the veranda -- pt. TWO First, second, third and fourth hand smoke -- 4. Breathing in smoke(free), firsthand -- Introduction -- The theoretical backgroundedness of the air itself -- Air as agent -- Explicating the (firsthand) air for the ignorant agent -- Take a big breath in -- 5. Miasmatic exhalation: Breathing out (secondhand) -- Introduction -- Explicating the secondhand air -- The nose knows danger
Note continued: Jennifer, defender of the air -- Public air -- An illness-inducing stench: Cancer is catching -- There is difference in the air -- Colonial anthropology: Eradicating smoke and mosquitoes -- Protecting the Infinite and pure air -- 6. Abject thirdhand smoke -- Introduction -- Thirdhand smoke -- `Mobile tobacco contamination packages' -- Smell and the thirdhand trickster -- Touch: How to deal with witches in the family -- The air has a history -- The second law of thermodynamics -- 7. Fourthhand smoke: Going to Flavor Country -- Introduction -- Explicating the air in cigarette advertising -- Come on, come to Flavor Country -- Small t taste -- Capital T taste -- Olive Brown is Not classy -- All flights to Flavor Country have been grounded -- The bitter taste of a gangrenous foot -- Smoking to remember the air -- Come breathe on me, honey -- The rational agent and the travel agent
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Machine generated contents note: A fascinating atmosphere -- Ethnographic vignettes -- The strength (or weakness) of vignettes -- A note on Australian specificity and broader relevance -- Introduction: There's something in the air -- Examining smoking in the era of smokefree: Public health and anthropology -- The anthropology of smoking (a smokefree anthropology) -- Anthropology's smoker -- A new approach to smoking and smokefree -- An argument for inchoateness -- The structure -- pt. ONE The lay of the smokefree land -- 1. The difference between tobacco and tomatoes -- Introduction -- On `atmospheres' -- Some thoughts on an uninsurable monkey -- Public health interventions and the construction of the smoker -- The Benson and Hedges World Series Cricket, 1988 -- Smokefree places -- The nuances of public place legislation -- Legislating the air -- 2. Oppositionary pairings and ruinous smoke -- Introduction -- Oppositionary pair: Right and wrong

Note continued: Oppositionary pair: Public health and tobacco companies -- Oppositionary pair: A long life or an untimely death -- Oppositionary pair: The time of smoking and the time free of smoking -- Oppositionary pair: Two spatial states -- 3. Reimagining the smoker -- Introduction -- The smoker, doubly constructed -- Public health's rational agent -- Anthropological reformulation of the smoker? -- Michelle the rational smoker -- Michelle, reanalysed -- Putting things that are meant to be held apart, together: The internal Inconsistency of smoking -- Come off the veranda -- pt. TWO First, second, third and fourth hand smoke -- 4. Breathing in smoke(free), firsthand -- Introduction -- The theoretical backgroundedness of the air itself -- Air as agent -- Explicating the (firsthand) air for the ignorant agent -- Take a big breath in -- 5. Miasmatic exhalation: Breathing out (secondhand) -- Introduction -- Explicating the secondhand air -- The nose knows danger

Note continued: Jennifer, defender of the air -- Public air -- An illness-inducing stench: Cancer is catching -- There is difference in the air -- Colonial anthropology: Eradicating smoke and mosquitoes -- Protecting the Infinite and pure air -- 6. Abject thirdhand smoke -- Introduction -- Thirdhand smoke -- `Mobile tobacco contamination packages' -- Smell and the thirdhand trickster -- Touch: How to deal with witches in the family -- The air has a history -- The second law of thermodynamics -- 7. Fourthhand smoke: Going to Flavor Country -- Introduction -- Explicating the air in cigarette advertising -- Come on, come to Flavor Country -- Small t taste -- Capital T taste -- Olive Brown is Not classy -- All flights to Flavor Country have been grounded -- The bitter taste of a gangrenous foot -- Smoking to remember the air -- Come breathe on me, honey -- The rational agent and the travel agent

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