03713nam 2200661Ia 450 991082869600332120200520144314.01-134-88329-31-134-88330-71-280-33106-297866103310620-203-30748-80-203-03180-610.4324/9780203031803 (CKB)1000000000247659(EBL)168785(OCoLC)56471949(SSID)ssj0000288486(PQKBManifestationID)11232469(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288486(PQKBWorkID)10373194(PQKB)10627883(Au-PeEL)EBL168785(CaPaEBR)ebr10060707(CaONFJC)MIL33106(MiAaPQ)EBC168785(EXLCZ)99100000000024765919920715d1992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAlcohol, gender and culture /edited by Dimitra Gefou-Madianou1st ed.London Routledge19921 online resource (201 p.)European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)"This book is an outgrowth of a panel on Alcohol Commensality, Gender Roles and Religion in European Societies, part of the first EASA Conference in Coimbra, Portugal, during 3-7 September 1990."-- cf Pref.0-415-08667-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: alcohol commensality, identity transformations and transcendence Dimitra Gefou-Madianou; Female entertainers in Egypt: drinking and gender roles Karin van Nieuwkerk; Uses of alcohol among women: games of resistance, power and pleasure Eleni Papagaroufali; Drinking on masculinity: alcohol and gender in Andalusia Henk Driessen; Wine: life's blood and spiritual essence in a Greek Orthodox convent A. Marina Iossifides; Wine and men in Alsace, France Isabelle Bianquis-GasserExclusion and unity, retsina and sweet wine: commensality and gender in a Greek agrotown Dimitra Gefou-Madianou'I can't drink beer, I've just drunk water': alcohol, bodily substance and commensality among Hungarian Rom Michael Stewart; Drinking and masculinity in everyday Swedish culture Gunilla Bjeren; No fishing without drinking: the construction of social identity in rural Ireland Adrian Peace; Name index; Subject indexEuropeans consitiute 12 and a half per cent of the world's population but consume 50 per cent of the recorded world production alcohol, and this consumption plays a significant role in the cultural, religious, and social identites of these countrise. The contributors show how different groups define the proper use of alcohol, how State policies may effect drinking behaviour, and highlight how beverages and comestibles must be seen in relation to each other. From this is it shown how importamt socio-cultural distinctions are made between and within communities, gender relations, ethnic groups, European Association of Social AnthropologistsDrinking of alcoholic beveragesEuropeCross-cultural studiesDrinking customsEuropeCross-cultural studiesDrinking of alcoholic beveragesDrinking customs394.13Gefou-Madianou Dimitra1675534MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828696003321Alcohol, gender, and culture4041088UNINA