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Constructive Drinking
About this book
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
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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 farmhouse
- 8 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 Poland
- 15 Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman. Alternative mechanism of distribution in a Soviet economy
- Index