Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology

Mary Douglas

Psychology Press, 2003 - 291 sider

First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking 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

Indhold

• anthropological study of alcohol use 19701980: 16
• American society: 73
• Gerald Mars Longshore drinking economic security: 91
• Mary Anna Thornton Sekt versus Schnapps in an Austrian: 102
• of the Kasai: 113
• Anne Tyler Calabresi Vin Santo and wine in a Tuscan: 122
• Mambila: 135
• Paul Antze Symbolic action in Alcoholics Anonymous: 149
• Elizabeth Bott The Kava ceremonial as a dream structure: 182
• Haim Hazan Holding time still with cups of tea: 205
• Lisa Anne Gurr Maigrets Paris conserved and distilled: 220
• Thomas Crump The alternative economy of alcohol in: 239
• Hillel Levine Alcohol monopoly to protect the non: 250
• Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman Alternative mechanism: 270
• Index: 280

Om forfatteren

Born in Italy, Mary Douglas was educated at Oxford University and began her career as a civil servant in 1943. Her first field research was carried out in what was then the Belgian Congo and she taught at Oxford and the University of London before moving to the United States in 1977. Purity and Danger (1966) is an essay about the logic of pollution beliefs, suggesting that ideas about dirt and disorder outline and reinforce particular social orders. Her other essays exploring the implicit meanings of cultural symbols follow a similar Durkheimian format. Her recent interests have turned to analysis of risk behavior and cross-cultural attitudes about food and alcohol.

Bibliografiske oplysninger

• Titel: Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology; Bind 10 af Collected Works, Mary Douglas; Bind 10 af Mary Douglas: Collected Works, Mary Douglas, ISBN 0415283973, 9780415283977; Bind 10 af Selections, Mary Douglas; Bind 10 af Works, Mary Douglas
• Forfatter: Mary Douglas
• Redaktør: Mary Douglas
• Udgave: genoptrykt
• Udgiver: Psychology Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0415291135, 9780415291132
• Længde: 291 sider