Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from AnthropologyFirst 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 |
Contents
anthropological study of alcohol use 19701980 | 16 |
rituals of drinking time | 73 |
union politics in Newfoundland 76 | 91 |
Mary Anna Thornton Sekt versus Schnapps in an Austrian | 102 |
of the Kasai | 113 |
Anne Tyler Calabresi Vin Santo and wine in a Tuscan | 122 |
Farnham Rehfisch Competitive beer drinking among | 135 |
Paul Antze Symbolic action in Alcoholics Anonymous | 149 |
Elizabeth Bott The Kava ceremonial as a dream structure | 182 |
Haim Hazan Holding time still with cups of tea | 205 |
Lisa Anne Gurr Maigrets Paris conserved and distilled | 220 |
Thomas Crump The alternative economy of alcohol in | 239 |
Hillel Levine Alcohol monopoly to protect the non | 250 |
Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman Alternative mechanism | 270 |
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