| Description |
ix, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Introductory -- A distinctive anthropological perspective / Mary Douglas -- A decade of development in the anthropological study of alcohol use, 1970-1980 / Dwight Heath -- Part II. Drinks construct the world as it is -- Passage to play : Rituals of drinking time in American society / Joseph Gusfield -- Longshore drinking, economic security and union politics in Newfoundland / Gerald Mars -- Sekt versus schnapps in an Austrian village / Mary Anna Thornton -- Varieties of palm wine among the Lele of the Kasai / Ndolamb Ngokwey -- Vin Santo and wine in a Tuscan farmhouse / Anne Tyler Calaresi -- Competitive beer drinking among the Mambila / Farnham Rehfisch -- Part III. Drinks construct an ideal world -- Symbolic action in Alcoholics Anonymous / Pau Antze -- The Kava ceremonial as a dream structure / Elizabeth Bott -- Holding time still with cups of tea / Haim Hazan -- Maigret's Paris conserved and distilled / Lisa Anne Gurt -- Part IV. Alcohol entrenches the alternative economy -- The alternative economy of alcohol in the Chiapas highlands / Thomas Crump -- Alcohol monopoly to protect the non-commercial sector of eighteenth-century Poland / Hillel Levine -- Alternative mechanism of distribution in a Soviet economy / Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman |
| Summary |
Collection of essays presenting anthropological approaches to alcohol use; brief reference to Aborigines in Heaths survey of studies between 1970-1980 |
| Analysis |
Alcoholic drinks Consumption |
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Alcoholic drinks Consumption - Anthropological perspectives |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies, tables and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Credits |
This volume is sponsored by the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food |
| Performer |
This volume is sponsored by the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food |
| Subject |
Alcoholism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Anthropology.
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Drinking customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Alcohol Drinking.
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Anthropology.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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| Author |
Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007.
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International Commission on Anthropology of Food and Food Problems.
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| LC no. |
86033388 |
| ISBN |
0521335043 |
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0521406447 (paperback) |
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2735101770 (France) |
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2735104001 (France : pbk.) |
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