The smoking gods
Subtitle: tobacco in Maya art, history, and religion
By: by Francis Robicsek ; foreword by Michael D. Coe and by Barbara A. Goodnight ; photos by the author.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Mayas -- Tobacco use.; Indians of Mexico -- Tobacco use.; Indians of Central America -- Tobacco use.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 209-227.
Includes index.