Research Catalog

Title

Drinking : anthropological approaches / edited by Igor and Valerie de Garine.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Garine, I. de.
• Garine, Valerie de.
• International Commission on Anthropology of Food and Food Problems.
• International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Congress (14th : 1998 : Williamsburg, VA)

Description

iv, 248 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Anthropology of food and nutrition ; v. 4

Uniform Title

Anthropology of food and nutrition v. 4.

Subject

• Ceremonial Behavior
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Drinking Behavior
• Drinking behavior > Congresses
• Ethnology

Genre/Form

Congress

Note

• Papers presented at a symposium organised by the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food held at the 14th International Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in Williamsburg, VA, July 26-Aug. 1, 1998.
• Series data from CIP.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• For a pluridisciplinary approach to drinking / Igor de Garine -- Thirst and drinking as a biocultural process / Luis Alberto Vargas -- Water and drinking in an ecological context among Australian Aboriginal people practising traditional subsistence methods / Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- Nor any drop to drink : everyday drinking habits in Pacific and New Zealand societies / Nancy J. Pollock -- Drinking in Northen Cameroon among the Masa and Muzey / Igor de Garine -- Milk consumption in African pastoral peoples / Michael A. Little, Sandra J. Gray and Benjamin C. Campbell -- The drinking ritual among the Maasai / Fouad N. Ibrahim -- Changing perceptions on milk as a drink in Western Europe : the case of the Netherlands / Adel P. den Hartog.
• Milk in the mountains / Helen M. Macbeth -- Wine and health : the protective role of moderate consumption / A. M. Troncoso, M. C. Garcia Parrilla and M. V. Martinez Ortega -- Drinking : an almost silent language / Isabel González Turmo -- Gender and drink in Aragon, Spain / Luis Cantarero Abad -- Tapeo : an identity model of public drink and food consumption in Spain / Amado Millan -- Cantinas and drinkers in Mexico / Ricardo Avila Palafox -- Tamadoba : drinking social cohesion at the Georgian table / Mary Ellen Chatwin -- An ethnographic account of the many roles of millet beer in the culture of the Duupa agriculturalists : Poli Mountains : Northern Camaroon / Eric Garine.
• Socio-economic and cultural implications of alcoholic beverages among the Abagusii of Western Kenya / Wilfred K. Subbo -- Alcohol, slavery, and African cultural continuity in the British Caribbean / Frederick H. Smith -- Drinking in La Réunion : between living, dying and forgetting / Annie Hubert -- When is an alcohol-containing substance something else? Southeast Asian definitions / Christine S. Wilson.

ISBN

• 157181809X (alk. paper)
• 1571813152 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001035608

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library