Archaeologies of Smoking, Pipes and Transatlantic Connections

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.

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).