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Breaking the ashes : the culture of illicit liquor in Sri Lanka / Michele Ruth Gamburd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gamburd, Michele Ruth, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Sri Lanka--Naeaegama.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Alcoholism--Sri Lanka--Naeaegama.
- Alcoholism.
- Drinking customs--Sri Lanka--Naeaegama.
- Drinking customs.
- Naeaegama (Sri Lanka)--Social life and customs.
- Naeaegama (Sri Lanka).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gamburd explores the changing role of alcohol consumption in a Sri Lankan village the cultural context for social and antisocial alcohol consumption, insight into everyday and ceremonial drinking, and the illicit alcohol market.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p.[247]-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-6049-2
- OCLC:
- 657459551
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