Drinking : anthropological approaches / / editors, I. de Garine, Valerie de Garine

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797355003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-57181-809-X; 1-78533-165-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iv, 248 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Anthropology of Food & Nutrition ; ; v.4
• Altri autori (Persone): GarineIgor de; GarineValerie de
• Disciplina: 394.13
• Soggetti: Drinking behavior; Ethnology; Ceremonial behavior; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Australia; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Africa; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Cameroon; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Europe, Western; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Mexico; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Kenya; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Caribbean Area; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Réunion; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Malaysia; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Pacific area
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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: from satisfying biological needs to communicating with humans and the hereafter, attempting to reach a differential emotional state or seeking good health and longevity through the ingestion of appropriate beverages. It includes papers from both biological and social scientists and covers a fair range of societies from rural and urban environments, and in continents and countries ranging from Europe, Africa, and Latin America to Malaysia and the Pacific.