sample="quota" bates="1000212367" isource="pm" decade="1970" class="ni" date="19770630" Social Systems Analysts (617) 924-1611 2 CALVIN ROAD, WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS 02172 RECEIVED AUG 1 1977 H. WAKEHAM 30th July 1977 Dr. Helmut Wakeham Research Center Philip Morris Incorporated Richmond, Virginia 23261 Dear Wake, I am enclosing a progress report on the project. Nancy C. Glock, Ed.D. has replaced Dr. Bestor on the project, although he has participated in some of the work. Dr. Glock has her degree in the Philosophy of Education, but has a strong background in Anthropology and the social sciences. Dr. Bestor will be leaving the Boston area toward the end of August. He will, however, continue to work on the cross-cultural material with a reduced time commitment. If you have no objections, I should like to get Dr. Fleming involved in the cross-cultural material. He would be able to give one or more and a half days per week. His background in studies involving comparative and cross-cultural issues, as well as cultural history, would make him an ideal colleague in the study. We have been focussing on the place of tobacco in the cultures of the New World, as well as those in the rest of the world, and have realized that we have a good opportunity to present a contextual, informed and entertaining guess on the origin of tobacco smoking in human history. We are working on putting some of our cross-cultural findings into a popular article which we have tentatively entitled, "The Man Who Invented Smoking". The article will piece together a popular image of a probably sequence of events. Popular because we think this will be an appealing article, although, of course, the origins will be forever unknown. In any event, we have given birth to "Sairi Petu", the man who invented smoking. The birth announcement is enclosed. His name is made up of the two most prevalent words for tobacco in the original American Indian languages. Sairi Petu was a shaman who was experimenting with various herbs and medicinal plants; the importance of breath and breathing cures was part of his magico-curing practice. This was probably in South America and involved a pipe with tubes or roots. We hope to present Sairi Petu as a personification of the basic tobacco-in-context complex of traits with which Nicotiana is associated in the New World. The sample of societies is now being expanded to two hundred carefully sampled by culture cluster. This includes the original sixty. We are building a comprehensive file of tobacco use in context, with parallel information on substances that are used in similar contexts, and have high expectations of the results. Yours sincerely, S. J. Feinhandler, Ph.D. ZANGU and NGAM'BI WAHI, of Amazonas, Brazil are pleased to announce the birth of their son Sairi Petu ("The Man Who Invented Smoking") on July 29, 10,977 B.C. 10:35 am weight: 6 stones and 3 pebbles height: small mangabeira tree (Hancornia speciosa) at the Calvin Road Lying-In Mother is doing well.