Constructive Drinking
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2002
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-0-415-29113-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-29113-2 (9780415291132)
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Person
Mary Douglas
Content
1: Introductory; 1: A distinctive anthropological perspective; 2: A decade of development in the anthropological study of alcohol use: 1970-1980; 2: Drinks construct the world as it is; 3: Passage to play: rituals of drinking time in American society; 4: Longshore drinking, economic security and union politics in Newfoundland; 5: Sekt versus Schnapps in an Austrian village; 6: Varieties of palm wine among the Lele of the Kasai; 7: Vin Santo and wine in a Tuscan farmhouse; 8: Competitive beer drinking among the Mambila; 3: Drinks construct an ideal world; 9: Symbolic action in Alcoholics Anonymous; 10: The Kava ceremonial as a dream structure 1; 11: Holding time still with cups of tea; 12: Maigret's Paris, conserved and distilled; 4: Alcohol entrenches the alternative economy; 13: The alternative economy of alcohol in the Chiapas highlands; 14: Alcohol monopoly to protect the non-commercial sector of eighteenth-century Poland; 15: Alternative mechanism of distribution in a Soviet economy