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Title Alcohol, gender, and culture / edited by Dimitra Gefou-Madianou
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (x, 190 pages)
Series European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Contents Introduction : alcohol commensality, identity transformations and transcendence / Dimitra Gefou-Madianou -- Female entertainers in Egypt : drinking and gender roles / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Uses of alcohol among women : games of resistance, power and pleasure / Eleni Papagaroufali -- Drinking on masculinity : alcohol and gender in Andalusia / Henk Driessen -- Wine : life's blood and spiritual essence in a Greek Orthodox convent / A. Marina Iossifides -- Wine and men in Alsace, France / Isabelle Bianquis-Gasser -- Exclusion and unity, retsina and sweet wine : commensality and gender in a Greek agrotown / Dimitra Gefou-Madianou -- 'I can't drink beer, I've just drunk water' : alcohol, bodily substance and commensality among Hungarian Rom / Michael Stewart -- Drinking and masculinity in everyday Swedish culture / Gunilla Bjerén -- No fishing without drinking : the construction of social identity in rural Ireland / Adrian Peace
Summary Contributors show how in countries across Europe, alcohol plays a significant role in cultural, religious and social identities, and how drinking practices can provide an analytical tool with which to approach different socio-cultural groups
Analysis Popular culture Role of Alcoholic drinks
Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Drinking customs -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cross-cultural studies
Women -- Alcohol use -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
Men -- Alcohol use -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
Drinking customs -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cross-cultural studies
Men -- Alcohol use -- Europe -- Cross-cultural studies
Drinking customs
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Men -- Alcohol use
Women -- Alcohol use
Alcoholgebruik.
Seksen.
Culturele aspecten.
Boissons alcoolisées -- Études transculturelles.
Boissons -- Consommation -- Europe -- Etudes culturelles.
Hommes -- Europe -- Consommation d'alcool -- Études transculturelles.
Alcoolisme -- Europe -- Sociologie.
Europe
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Gefou-Madianou, Dimitra
ISBN 0203200284
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