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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789822503321

Autore

Gamburd Michele Ruth <1965->

Titolo

Breaking the ashes [[electronic resource] ] : the culture of illicit liquor in Sri Lanka / / Michele Ruth Gamburd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8014-6049-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

362.292095493

Soggetti

Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama

Alcoholism - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama

Drinking customs - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama

Naeaegama (Sri Lanka) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[247]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Context : religious, historical, and political frameworks -- Without one's right mind : agency, intoxication, and addiction -- We don't say no : drinking and identity -- Jolly drinking : events and taverns -- Home wars : gendered consumption struggles -- Kasippu : the political economics of illicit liquor -- Over the red line : social rules for drunken comportment -- Too much is good for nothing : alcohol dependence -- A goddess of wrath : treatments.