The semiotics of drink and drinking /

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Author / Creator:Manning, Paul, 1964-
Imprint:London : New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Continuum advances in semiotics
Continuum advances in semiotics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11210384
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ISBN:9781441146397
1441146393
9781441124517
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9781441160188
1441160183
9781441137746
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions. It looks at the way the materiality of a specific drink (coffee, wine, water, beer) serves as the semiotic medium for a genre of sociability in a specific time and place. As an explicitly comparative semiotic study, the book uses familiar and unfamiliar case studies to show how drinks with similar material properties are semiotically organized into very different drinking practices, including ethnographic.
Other form:Print version: Manning, Paul, 1964- Semiotics of drink and drinking 9781441160188
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