Drinking : : Anthropological Approaches / / ed. by Igor de Garine.

Over the last decades quite a few studies have been devoted to drinking. Most of these were concerned with alcohol and written by social anthropologists. This book presents multidisciplinary aspects of the ingestion of liquids at large, addressing many of the overt and covert meanings of drinking: f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]
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Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Anthropology of Food Nutrition ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • FIGURES AND MAP
  • TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • 1. FOR A PLURIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO DRINKING
  • 2. THIRST AND DRINKING AS A BIOCULTURAL PROCESS
  • 3. WATER AND DRINKING IN AN ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT AMONG AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLE PRACTISING TRADITIONAL SUBSISTENCE METHODS
  • 4. NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK
  • 5. DRINKING IN NORTHERN CAMEROON AMONG THE MASA AND MUZEY
  • 6. MILK CONSUMPTION IN AFRICAN PASTORAL PEOPLES
  • 7. THE DRINKING RITUAL AMONG THE MAASAI
  • 8. CHANGING PERCEPTIONS ON MILK AS A DRINK IN WESTERN EUROPE
  • 9. MILK IN THE MOUNTAINS
  • 10. WINE AND HEALTH
  • 11. DRINKING
  • 12. GENDER AND DRINK IN ARAGON, SPAIN
  • 13. TAPEO
  • 14. CANTINAS AND DRINKERS IN MEXICO
  • 15. TAMADOBA
  • 16. AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE MANY ROLES OF MILLET BEER IN THE CULTURE OF THE DUUPA AGRICULTURALISTS, (POLI MOUNTAINS) NORTHERN CAMEROON
  • 17. SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AMONG THE ABAGUSII OF WESTERN KENYA
  • 18. ALCOHOL, SLAVERY, AND AFRICAN CULTURAL CONTINUITY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN
  • 19. DRINKING IN LA RÉUNION
  • 20. WHEN IS AN ALCOHOL-CONTAINING SUBSTANCE SOMETHING ELSE?
  • 21. EPILOGUE
  • INDEX