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The smoking gods : tobacco in Maya art, history, and religion
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The use of tobacco among the Mayas and their cousins in the rest of the New World not only was a social custom, as it is in our society nowadays, but had far-reaching implications in religion and m...
The use of tobacco among the Mayas and their cousins in the rest of the New World not only was a social custom, as it is in our society nowadays, but had far-reaching implications in religion and medicine and a lasting impact on art.
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- Creator
- by Francis Robicsek ; foreword by Michael D. Coe and by Barbara A. Goodnight ; photographs by the author
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1978]
- ©1978
- Physical Details
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- xxv, 233 pages, 42 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 31 cm
- ISBNs
- 0806115114, 9780806115115
- OCLC
- ocm04647021, ocm04647021
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index.
- Tobacco in the new world -- Tobacco and the Mayas -- Tobacco and religion -- Tobacco as medicine -- Unexplained effects of tobacco -- God K, the deity with the smoking cigar -- The classification of archaeological material -- Scenes almost certainly representing the act of smoking -- Scenes probably representing the act of smoking -- Scenes showing objects that may be large cigars -- God K on ceremic artifacts and frescoes
Subjects
- Mayas -- Tobacco use.
- Indians of Mexico -- Tobacco use.
- Indians of Central America -- Tobacco use.
- Tobacco in art.
- Tobacco -- Religious aspects.
- Indians, Central American -- history.
Medical Subject Heading
- Indians, North American -- history.
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- Smoking -- history.
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- Tobacco.
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