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Constructive drinking : perspectives on drink from anthropology
- Title
- Constructive drinking : perspectives on drink from anthropology / edited by Mary Douglas.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1987.
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- Description
- ix, 291 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Collection of essays presenting anthropological approaches to alcohol use; brief reference to Aborigines in Heaths survey of studies between 1970-1980.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Note
- "Sponsored by the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food"--Preliminary page.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Credits (note)
- This volume is sponsored by the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JLE 87-3819
- ISBN
- 0521335043
- 9780521335041
- LCCN
- 86033388
- OCLC
- 15082705
- Title
- Constructive drinking : perspectives on drink from anthropology / edited by Mary Douglas.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1987.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Performer
- This volume is sponsored by the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food.
- Credits
- This volume is sponsored by the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food.
- Added Author
- Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007, editor.International Commission on Anthropology of Food and Food Problems.
- Research Call Number
- JLE 87-3819