Constructive drinking : perspectives on drink from anthropology

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825661103321
• Autore: Douglas Mary <1921-2007, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1987, 2003
• ISBN: 1-134-55778-7; 0-415-60670-5; 1-315-88887-4; 1-134-55771-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (608 p.)
• Collana: Mary Douglas collected works ; ; volume X
• Disciplina: 302
• Soggetti: Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Drinking customs; Alcoholism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1987 by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors to this volume; I Introductory; 1 Mary Douglas. A distinctive anthropological perspective; 2 Dwight Heath. A decade of development in the anthropological study of alcohol use, 1970-1980; II Drinks construct the world as it is; 3 Joseph Gusfield. Passage to play: rituals of drinking time in American society; 4 Gerald Mars. Longshore drinking, economic security and union politics in Newfoundland; 5 Mary Anna Thornton. Sekt versus Schnapps in an Austrian village; 6 Ndolamb Ngokwey. Varieties of palm wine among the Lele of the Kasai; 7 Anne Tyler Calabresi. Vin Santo and wine in a Tuscan farmhouse8 Farnham Rehfisch. Competitive beer drinking among the Mambila.; III Drinks construct an ideal world; 9 Paul Antze. Symbolic action in Alcoholics Anonymous; 10 Elizabeth Bott. The Kava ceremonial as a dream structure; 11 Haim Hazan. Holding time still with cups of tea; 12 Lisa Anne Gurr. Maigret's Paris conserved and distilled; IV Alcohol entrenches the alternative economy; 13 Thomas Crump. The alternative economy of alcohol in the Chiapas highlands; 14 Hillel Levine. Alcohol monopoly to protect the noncommercial sector ; of eighteenth-century Poland15 Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman. Alternative mechanism of distribution in a Soviet economy; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 1987, <EM>Constructive Drinking</EM> is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions are: that drinking has a real social role in everyday life; that drinking can be used to construct an ideal world; and that drinking is a significant economic activity. The case studies deal with a variety of exotic drinks