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Beliefs, behaviors, & alcoholic beverages : [electronic resource] a cross-cultural survey / Mac Marshall, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1979.Description: xii, 490 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0472085808 :
  • 9780472085804
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Beliefs, behaviors, & alcoholic beverages.; Online version:: Beliefs, behaviors, & alcoholic beverages.DDC classification:
  • 394.1/3/08
LOC classification:
  • GT2884 .B44 1979
NLM classification:
  • WM 274
Online resources:
Contents:
Alcohol and culture / David Mandelbaum -- Alcohol in its cultural context / John J. Honigmann -- The cultural structure of Mexican drinking behavior / William Madsen and Claudia Madsen -- The role of the drunk in a Oaxacan village / Philip A. Dennis -- The social uses of alcoholic beverages in a Peruvian community / Paul L. Doughty -- Ceremonial drinking in an Afro-Brazilian cult / Seth Leacock -- Drinking patterns and alcoholism in Trinidad / Carole Yawney -- The drunken Indian: myths and realities / Joseph Westermeyer -- The role of alcohol among North American Indian tribes as resported in the Jesuit relations / R.C. Dailey -- The world's oldest on-going protest demonstration: North American Indian drinking patterns / Nancy Oestreich Lurie -- The epidemiology of alcoholic cirrhosis in two southwestern Indian tribes / S.J. Kunitz, J.E. Levy, C.L. Odoroff, and J. Bollinger -- Alcohol and identity struggle: some effects of economic change on interpersonal relations / Richard Howard Robbins -- Forms and pathology of drinking in three Polynesian societies / Edwin M. Lemert -- Holy and unholy spirits: the effects of missionization on alcohol use in Eastern Micronesia / Mac Marshall and Leslie B. Marshall -- Sadines and other fried fish: the consumption ofalcoholic beverages on a Micronesian island / James D. Nason -- Drinking and inebriate behavior in the Admiralty Islands, Melansia / Theodore Schwartz and Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Notes on drinking in Japan / Bufo Yamamuro -- Changes in Japanese drinking patterns / Margaret J. Sargent -- Use of alcohol and opium by the Meo of Laos / Joseph Westermeyer -- Daru and Bhang: cultural factors in the choice of intoxicant / G.M. Carstairs -- Drinking patterns and alcoholism in the Chinese / K. Singer -- Alcohol as a contribiuting factor in social disorganization: the south African Bantu in the nineteenth century / Bertram Hutchinson -- Drinking and attitudes toward drinking in a Muslim community / J. Midgley -- Beer as a locus of value among the West Africian Koyfar / Robert McC. Netting -- Problem-drinking and the integration of alcohol in rural Burganda / Michael C. Robbins -- Alcoholics anonymous as a crisis cult / William Madsen -- The crisis cult as a voluntary association: an international approach to alcoholics anonymous / Patricia O. Sadler -- Alcoholism and the Irish / Dermot Walsh -- The great Jewish drink mystery / Mark Keller -- Dynamics of drinking in an Austrian village / John J. Honigmann -- How French children learn to drink / Barbara Gallatin Anderson -- Alcohol and Soviet society / Walter D. Connor.
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Bibliography: p. 459-490.

Alcohol and culture / David Mandelbaum -- Alcohol in its cultural context / John J. Honigmann -- The cultural structure of Mexican drinking behavior / William Madsen and Claudia Madsen -- The role of the drunk in a Oaxacan village / Philip A. Dennis -- The social uses of alcoholic beverages in a Peruvian community / Paul L. Doughty -- Ceremonial drinking in an Afro-Brazilian cult / Seth Leacock -- Drinking patterns and alcoholism in Trinidad / Carole Yawney -- The drunken Indian: myths and realities / Joseph Westermeyer -- The role of alcohol among North American Indian tribes as resported in the Jesuit relations / R.C. Dailey -- The world's oldest on-going protest demonstration: North American Indian drinking patterns / Nancy Oestreich Lurie -- The epidemiology of alcoholic cirrhosis in two southwestern Indian tribes / S.J. Kunitz, J.E. Levy, C.L. Odoroff, and J. Bollinger -- Alcohol and identity struggle: some effects of economic change on interpersonal relations / Richard Howard Robbins -- Forms and pathology of drinking in three Polynesian societies / Edwin M. Lemert -- Holy and unholy spirits: the effects of missionization on alcohol use in Eastern Micronesia / Mac Marshall and Leslie B. Marshall -- Sadines and other fried fish: the consumption ofalcoholic beverages on a Micronesian island / James D. Nason -- Drinking and inebriate behavior in the Admiralty Islands, Melansia / Theodore Schwartz and Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Notes on drinking in Japan / Bufo Yamamuro -- Changes in Japanese drinking patterns / Margaret J. Sargent -- Use of alcohol and opium by the Meo of Laos / Joseph Westermeyer -- Daru and Bhang: cultural factors in the choice of intoxicant / G.M. Carstairs -- Drinking patterns and alcoholism in the Chinese / K. Singer -- Alcohol as a contribiuting factor in social disorganization: the south African Bantu in the nineteenth century / Bertram Hutchinson -- Drinking and attitudes toward drinking in a Muslim community / J. Midgley -- Beer as a locus of value among the West Africian Koyfar / Robert McC. Netting -- Problem-drinking and the integration of alcohol in rural Burganda / Michael C. Robbins -- Alcoholics anonymous as a crisis cult / William Madsen -- The crisis cult as a voluntary association: an international approach to alcoholics anonymous / Patricia O. Sadler -- Alcoholism and the Irish / Dermot Walsh -- The great Jewish drink mystery / Mark Keller -- Dynamics of drinking in an Austrian village / John J. Honigmann -- How French children learn to drink / Barbara Gallatin Anderson -- Alcohol and Soviet society / Walter D. Connor.

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