Drinking

by Garine, I. De; De Garine, Valerie

• ISBN13: 9781571813152
• ISBN10: 1571813152
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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. Igor de Garine, Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, Paris, and President of the International Commission for the Anthropology of Food

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. v
List of Figures and Map	p. vi
List of Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
For a Pluridisciplinary Approach to Drinking	p. 1
Thirst and Drinking as a Biocultural Process	p. 11
Water and Drinking in an Ecological Context among Australian Aboriginal People Practising Traditional Subsistence Methods	p. 22
Nor Any Drop to Drink: Everyday Drinking Habits in Pacific and New Zealand Societies	p. 35
Drinking in Northern Cameroon among the Masa and Muzey	p. 51
Milk Consumption in African Pastoral Peoples	p. 66
The Drinking Ritual among the Maasai	p. 87
Changing Perceptions on Milk as a Drink in Western Europe: The Case of the Netherlands	p. 96
Milk in the Mountains	p. 108
Wine and Health: The Protective Role of Moderate Consumption	p. 116
Drinking: An Almost Silent Language	p. 130
Gender and Drink in Aragon, Spain	p. 144
Tapeo: An Identity Model of Public Drink and Food Consumption in Spain	p. 158
Cantinas and Drinkers in Mexico	p. 169
Tamadoba: Drinking Social Cohesion at the Georgian Table	p. 181
An Ethnographic Account of the Many Roles of Millet Beer in the Culture of the Duupa Agriculturalists, (Poli Mountains) Northern Cameroon	p. 191
Socio-Economic and Cultural Implications of Alcoholic Beverages among the Abagusii of Western Kenya	p. 205
Alcohol, Slavery, and African Cultural Continuity in the British Caribbean	p. 212
Drinking in La Reunion: Between Living, Dying and Forgetting	p. 228
When is an Alcohol-Containing Substance Something Else? Southeast Asian Definitions	p. 234
Epilogue	p. 239
Index	p. 244
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