Alcohol in Early Java : : Its Social and Cultural Significance / / Jiří Jákl.

• Superior document: Brill's Southeast Asian Library ; 8
• VerfasserIn: Jákl, Jiří,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Southeast Asian Library ; 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (406 pages)

In Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance , Jiří Jákl offers an account of the production, trade, and consumption of alcohol in Java before 1500 CE, and discusses a whole array of meanings the Javanese have ascribed to its use. Though alcohol is extremely controversial in contemporary Islamic Java, it had multiple, often surprising, uses in the pre-Islamic society.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Old and Middle Javanese Textual Sources: What Can Be Known? -- part 1: Drinking Landscape in Ancient Java -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 Twak: Production and Types of Palm Wine -- 1 Tapping -- 2 Production -- 3 Waragaṅ -- 4 Baḍyag -- 5 Buḍur -- 6 Sajəṅ -- 7 Sayub -- 2 Beers and Lalasti Inebriating Snacks -- 3 Fruit Wines and Sugar Cane Wine -- 1 Sugar Cane Wine and 'Rums' in Pre-Islamic Java -- 2 Māstawa and Sīdhu: Rums in Pre-Islamic Java? -- 4 Drākṣa: Imported Grape Wine or Chinese Rice Beer? -- 5 Tuber Beer and Intoxicating Mushroom Brews -- 6 Distilled Beverages -- 1 Arrack below the Winds -- 2 Tampo, pǝṭar, and paṅasih: Alternative Terms for Distilled Drinks -- 7 Cups That Cheered: Drinking Paraphernalia -- 1 Drinking Vessels from Natural Materials -- 2 Pottery Vessels: Earthenware, Stoneware and Porcelain -- 3 Glass Cups and Vessels from Silver and Gold -- 8 Drinking Comportment -- part 2: Alcohol, Hospitality, and Identity in Java before 1500 CE -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 9 Drinking Ascetics and the Status of Alcohol before 1500 CE -- 10 Palm Wine for Sale: Ambulant Vendors and Market Stalls -- 11 Alcohol, Intoxication, and the Court Society -- 12 Alcohol in Marriage Festivities and Conjugal Rituals -- 13 Alcohol and Its Importance in Javanese Warfare -- 14 Ancestor Worship, Alcohol, and sīma Ceremonies -- 15 Alcohol in Javanese Bhairavism and Its Use among the Buddhists -- 1 Javanese Tantric Systems and Alcohol -- 2 Alcohol and Its Use and Significance among the Buddhists and Siddha Alchemists -- 16 Inebriated Men and Intoxicated rākṣasas: Drunkenness -- 17 Habitual Drinkers: Alcoholism in Pre-Islamic Java? -- 18 Islamization and Alcohol after 1500 CE -- Conclusion -- Figures -- Bibliography -- Index.