Alcohol in Early Java : : Its Social and Cultural Significance /

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

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 con...

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Superior document:Brill's Southeast Asian Library ; 8
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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)
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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.

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