Constructive drinking

Constructive drinking: perspectives on drink from anthropology

by Douglas, Mary

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First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions are: that drinking has a real social role in everyday life; that drinking can be used to construct an ideal world; and that drinking is a significant economic activity. The case studies deal with a variety of exotic drinks.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Constructive drinking : perspectives on drink from anthropology.

Summary

First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions are: that drinking has a real social role in everyday life; that drinking can be used to construct an ideal world; and that drinking is a significant economic activity. The case studies deal with a variety of exotic drinks.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2003.

Notes

"First published in 1987 by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge"--Title page verso

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781134557714, 113455771X, 9781315888873, 1315888874, 9781134557851, 113455785X, 9781134557783, 1134557787, 9780415606707, 0415606705
  • oclc:ocn863639585
  • LC Classification:HV5047
  • Dewey Decimal:394.1/3

Table of Contents

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors to this volume; I Introductory; 1 Mary Douglas. A distinctive anthropological perspective; 2 Dwight Heath. A decade of development in the anthropological study of alcohol use, 1970-1980; II Drinks construct the world as it is; 3 Joseph Gusfield. Passage to play: rituals of drinking time in American society; 4 Gerald Mars. Longshore drinking, economic security and union politics in Newfoundland; 5 Mary Anna Thornton. Sekt versus Schnapps in an Austrian village; 6 Ndolamb Ngokwey. Varieties of palm wine among the Lele of the Kasai.

7 Anne Tyler Calabresi. Vin Santo and wine in a Tuscan farmhouse8 Farnham Rehfisch. Competitive beer drinking among the Mambila.; III Drinks construct an ideal world; 9 Paul Antze. Symbolic action in Alcoholics Anonymous; 10 Elizabeth Bott. The Kava ceremonial as a dream structure; 11 Haim Hazan. Holding time still with cups of tea; 12 Lisa Anne Gurr. Maigret's Paris conserved and distilled; IV Alcohol entrenches the alternative economy; 13 Thomas Crump. The alternative economy of alcohol in the Chiapas highlands.

14 Hillel Levine. Alcohol monopoly to protect the noncommercial sector of eighteent…

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Subjects

alcoholism Alcoholism -- Cross-cultural studies Alcoolisme -- Études transculturelles Boissons -- Études transculturelles. --… Consommation d'alcool -- Études transcu… Cross-cultural studies Drinking customs Drinking customs -- Cross-cultural stud… Drinking of alcoholic beverages Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cros… HISTORY -- Social History

Writers

Douglas, Mary

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