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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garine, I. de.

Garine, Valerie de.

Series:

Anthropology of Food & Nutrition

Anthropology of Food & Nutrition ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking behavior--Congresses.

Drinking behavior.

Ethnology--Congresses.

Ethnology.

Ceremonial Behavior--Congresses.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Australia.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

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.

Medical Subjects:

Ceremonial Behavior--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 248 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781571818096

157181809X

9781785331657

1785331655