Constructive drinking : perspectives on drink from anthropology.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Mary Douglas, collected works ; Vol. 10 Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007. Works. Selections. 2003 ; 10.
Subject:	Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cross-cultural studies. Drinking customs -- Cross-cultural studies. Alcoholism -- Cross-cultural studies. Alcoholism. Drinking customs. Drinking of alcoholic beverages. Electronic books. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302948

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Other authors / contributors:	Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007.
ISBN:	9781134557714 113455771X 9781315888873 1315888874 0415291135 9780415291132 0415283973 9780415283977 0521335043 9780521335041 2735101770 9782735101771 0521406447 9780521406444 0415606707 9781134557851 113455785X 9781134557783 1134557787 9780415606707 0415606705
Notes:	"First published in 1987 by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Constructive drinking 9780415291132

Table of Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors to this volume; I Introductory; 1 Mary Douglas. A distinctive anthropological perspective; 2 Dwight Heath. A decade of development in the anthropological study of alcohol use, 1970-1980; II Drinks construct the world as it is; 3 Joseph Gusfield. Passage to play: rituals of drinking time in American society; 4 Gerald Mars. Longshore drinking, economic security and union politics in Newfoundland; 5 Mary Anna Thornton. Sekt versus Schnapps in an Austrian village; 6 Ndolamb Ngokwey. Varieties of palm wine among the Lele of the Kasai.
7 Anne Tyler Calabresi. Vin Santo and wine in a Tuscan farmhouse8 Farnham Rehfisch. Competitive beer drinking among the Mambila.; III Drinks construct an ideal world; 9 Paul Antze. Symbolic action in Alcoholics Anonymous; 10 Elizabeth Bott. The Kava ceremonial as a dream structure; 11 Haim Hazan. Holding time still with cups of tea; 12 Lisa Anne Gurr. Maigret's Paris conserved and distilled; IV Alcohol entrenches the alternative economy; 13 Thomas Crump. The alternative economy of alcohol in the Chiapas highlands.
14 Hillel Levine. Alcohol monopoly to protect the noncommercial sector of eighteenth-century Poland15 Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman. Alternative mechanism of distribution in a Soviet economy; Index.

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