Tobacco Blowback: How Colonial Trade Turned a Sacred Plant into a Toxic Threat
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
4-2013
Source Publication
Literary Review of Canada
Abstract
Smoke Signals: The Native Takeback of North America’s Tobacco Industry is one of those rare labours of love, rich in materials, insights and wisdom and yet most likely to be ignored by “scholars.” It is the irony of contemporary academia that some works that are the products of practical experience and sweeping insights suffer benign neglect on the basis that they lack the form and framework of “academic rigour.” This paradox may explain why author Jim Poling Sr. himself pre-emptively avows that “Smoke Signals is not in any way an academic study.” Despite this disclaimer, Smoke Signals is a serious piece of work, and, in some material respects, a tour de force.
Repository Citation
Mgbeoji, Ikechi. "Tobacco Blowback: How Colonial Trade Turned a Sacred Plant into a Toxic Threat." Literary Review of Canada. April (2013).
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Comments
Book Review: Jim Poling, Sr., Smoke Signals: The Native Take-back of North America’s Tobacco Industry