Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “…a very valuable book…Lie any good book, this one raises as many questions as it answers. It is a solidly anthropological volume, combining biological and cultural dimension of the discipline. I recommend the book highly.” · American Anthropologist
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
List of Figures and Map
List of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1. For a Pluridisciplinary Approach to Drinking
Igor de Garine
Chapter 2. Thirst and Drinking as a Biocultural Process
Luis Alberto Vargas
Chapter 3. Water and Drinking in an Ecological Context among Australian Aboriginal People Practising Traditional
Subsistence Methods
Stanley J. Ulijaszek
Chapter 4. Nor Any Drop to Drink: Everyday Drinking Habits in Pacific and New Zealand Societies
Nancy J. Pollock
Chapter 5. Drinking in Northern Cameroon among the Masa and Muzey
lgor de Garine
Chapter 6. Milk Consumption in African Pastoral Peoples
Michael A. Little, Sandra J. Gray and Benjamin C. Campbell
Chapter 7. The Drinking Ritual among the Maasai
Fouad N. lbrahim
Chapter 8. Changing Perceptions on Milk as a Drink in Western Europe: The Case of the Netherlands
Adel P. den Hartog
Chapter 9. Milk in the Mountains
Helen M. Macbeth
Chapter 10. Wine and Health: The Protective Role of Moderate Consumption
A.M.Troncoso, M.C. Garcia Parrilla and M.V. Martinez Ortega
Chapter 11. Drinking: An Almost Silent Language
Isabel González Turmo
Chapter 12. Gender and Drink in Aragon, Spain
Luis Cantarero Abad
Chapter 13. Tapeo: An Identity Model of Public Drink and Food Consumption in Spain
Amado Millan
Chapter 14. Cantinas and Drinkers in Mexico
Ricardo Avila Palafox
Chapter 15. Tamadoba: Drinking Social Cohesion at the Georgian Table
Mary Ellen Chatwin
Chapter 16. An Ethnographic Account of the Many Roles of Millet Beer in the Culture of the Duupa Agriculturalists, (Poli Mountains) Northern Cameroon
Eric Garine
Chapter 17. Socio-Economic and Cultural Implications of Alcoholic Beverages among the Abagusii of Western Kenya
Wilfred K. Subbo
Chapter 18. Alcohol, Slavery, and African Cultural Continuity in the British Caribbean
Frederick H.Smith
Chapter 19. Drinking in La Réunion: Between Living, Dying and Forgetting
Annie Hubert
Chapter 20. When is an Alcohol-Containing Substance Something Else? Southeast Asian Definitions
Christine S. Wilson
Chapter 21. Epilogue
Helen M. Macbeth
Index
