{"product_id":"alcohol-in-early-java-its-social-and-cultural-significance-9789004409637","title":"Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, Jiří Jákl offers an account of the production, trade, and consumption of alcohol in Java before 1500 CE, and discusses a whole array of meanings the Javanese have ascribed to its use. Though alcohol is extremely controversial in contemporary Islamic Java, it had multiple, often surprising, uses in the pre-Islamic society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   Preface   List of Figures      Introduction    1 Old and Middle Javanese Textual Sources: What Can Be Known?      part 1: Drinking Landscape in Ancient Java    Introduction to Part 1      1 Twak: Production and Types of Palm Wine    1 Tapping    2 Production    3 Waragaṅ    4 Baḍyag    5 Buḍur    6 Sajəṅ    7 Sayub      2 Beers and Lalasti Inebriating Snacks      3 Fruit Wines and Sugar Cane Wine    1 Sugar Cane Wine and ‘Rums’ in Pre-Islamic Java    2 Māstawa and Sīdhu: Rums in Pre-Islamic Java?      4 Drākṣa: Imported Grape Wine or Chinese  Rice Beer?      5 Tuber Beer and Intoxicating Mushroom Brews      6 Distilled Beverages    1 Arrack below the Winds    2 Tampo, pǝṭar, and paṅasih: Alternative Terms for Distilled Drinks      7 Cups That Cheered: Drinking Paraphernalia    1 Drinking Vessels from Natural Materials    2 Pottery Vessels: Earthenware, Stoneware and Porcelain    3 Glass Cups and Vessels from Silver and Gold      8 Drinking Comportment      part 2: Alcohol, Hospitality, and Identity in Java before 1500 CE    Introduction to Part 2      9 Drinking Ascetics and the Status of Alcohol before 1500 CE      10 Palm Wine for Sale: Ambulant Vendors and Market Stalls      11 Alcohol, Intoxication, and the Court Society      12 Alcohol in Marriage Festivities and Conjugal Rituals      13 Alcohol and Its Importance in Javanese Warfare      14 Ancestor Worship, Alcohol, and sīma Ceremonies      15 Alcohol in Javanese Bhairavism and Its Use among the Buddhists    1 Javanese Tantric Systems and Alcohol    2 Alcohol and Its Use and Significance among the Buddhists and Siddha Alchemists      16 Inebriated Men and Intoxicated rākṣasas: Drunkenness      17 Habitual Drinkers: Alcoholism in Pre-Islamic Java?      18 Islamization and Alcohol after 1500 CE      Conclusion   Figures   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210781778263,"sku":"9789004409637","price":116.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alcohol-in-early-java-its-social-and-cultural-significance-9789004409637","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}