出版社：Department of Anthropology, University of Durham
摘要：This is a big, angry, brickbat of a book. The focus of most social science research on
tobacco is its consumption, so it is good to have its modes of production put under the
spotlight. The book is based on many year¡¯s working and talking with farmers in the
region and a more focussed, 20 month period of PhD research amongst tobacco growers in
Wilson County, North Carolina, ¡®the largest and most active tobacco-producing region in
the country¡¯ (p. 3). Benson¡¯s ethnography puts their lives, and those of the documented and
undocumented migrant workers who work for them, in the context of the changing
dynamics of the global tobacco industry, the increasing industrialisation of tobacco
farming, and the increasingly strident public health movement that has developed around
tobacco control. He looks at the global tobacco industry¡¯s effects in North Carolina using
vernacular metaphors of ¡®sorriness¡¯ and plight.
