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Alcohol, gender and culture...
Europeans consitiute 12 and a half per cent of the world's population but consume 50 per cent of the recorded world production alcohol, and this consumption plays a significant role in the cultural, religious, and social identites of these countrise. The contributors show how different groups define the proper use of alcohol, how State policies may effect drinking behaviour, and highlight how beverages and comestibles must be seen in relation to each other. From this is it shown how importamt socio-cultural distinctions are made between and within communities, gender relations, ethnic groups
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monografia Rebiun19666363 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun19666363 m o d | cr -n--------- 920715s1992 enk ob 001 0 eng d b92X2132 1-134-88330-7 1-280-33106-2 9786610331062 0-203-30748-8 0-203-03180-6 UPVA 997915769403706 UAM 991008016374404211 CBUC 991010890005806709 UPCT u309691 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng 394.13 Gefou-Madianou, Dimitra Alcohol, gender and culture electronic resource] edited by Dimitra Gefou-Madianou London Routledge 1992 London London Routledge 1 online resource (201 p.) 1 online resource (201 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series) Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: alcohol commensality, identity transformations and transcendence Dimitra Gefou-Madianou; Female entertainers in Egypt: drinking and gender roles Karin van Nieuwkerk; Uses of alcohol among women: games of resistance, power and pleasure Eleni Papagaroufali; Drinking on masculinity: alcohol and gender in Andalusia Henk Driessen; Wine: life's blood and spiritual essence in a Greek Orthodox convent A. Marina Iossifides; Wine and men in Alsace, France Isabelle Bianquis-Gasser Exclusion and unity, retsina and sweet wine: commensality and gender in a Greek agrotown Dimitra Gefou-Madianou'I can't drink beer, I've just drunk water': alcohol, bodily substance and commensality among Hungarian Rom Michael Stewart; Drinking and masculinity in everyday Swedish culture Gunilla Bjeren; No fishing without drinking: the construction of social identity in rural Ireland Adrian Peace; Name index; Subject index Europeans consitiute 12 and a half per cent of the world's population but consume 50 per cent of the recorded world production alcohol, and this consumption plays a significant role in the cultural, religious, and social identites of these countrise. The contributors show how different groups define the proper use of alcohol, how State policies may effect drinking behaviour, and highlight how beverages and comestibles must be seen in relation to each other. From this is it shown how importamt socio-cultural distinctions are made between and within communities, gender relations, ethnic groups English Drinking of alcoholic beverages- Europe- Cross-cultural studies Drinking customs- Europe- Cross-cultural studies Electronic books Gefou-Madianou, Dimitra 0-415-08667-1 European Association of Social Anthropologists