Alcohol, gender and culture / edited by Dimitra Gefou-Madianou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gefou-Madianou, Dimitra.

Series:

European Association of Social Anthropologists

European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Europe--Cross-cultural studies.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Drinking customs--Europe--Cross-cultural studies.

Drinking customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Europeans 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,

Contents:

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-Gasser

Exclusion 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 index

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-88329-3

1-134-88330-7

1-280-33106-2

9786610331062

0-203-30748-8

0-203-03180-6

9780203031803

OCLC:

56471949