Drinking: Anthropological ApproachesOver 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
Thirst and Drinking as a Biocultural Process | 11 |
Water and Drinking in an Ecological Context among | 22 |
Everyday Drinking Habits in Pacific | 35 |
Drinking in Northern Cameroon among the Masa and Muzey | 51 |
Milk Consumption in African Pastoral Peoples | 66 |
The Drinking Ritual among the Maasai | 87 |
Milk in the Mountains | 108 |
The Protective Role of Moderate | 116 |
An Identity Model of Public Drink and Food | 158 |
Cantinas and Drinkers in Mexico | 169 |
Drinking Social Cohesion at the Georgian Table | 181 |
An Ethnographic Account of the Many Roles of Millet Beer in | 191 |
SocioEconomic and Cultural Implications of Alcoholic | 205 |
Alcohol Slavery and African Cultural Continuity in the British | 212 |
Between Living Dying and Forgetting | 225 |
When is an AlcoholContaining Substance Something Else? | 234 |
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