Constructive Drinking

Constructive Drinking Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology - MSH: International Commission on the Anthropology of Food

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Publisher's Synopsis

An anthropological approach to the study of drink, showing how potentially addictive beverages are used to mark social occasions, and form and maintain relationships; how they fulfil the ritual function of constructing a bearable, intelligible world; and how they are economically important.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521406444
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 301
Weight: 561g
Height: 235mm
Width: 157mm
Spine width: 21mm