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Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology

Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology

Hardcover

Series: Mary Douglas: Collected Works, Book 10

AnthropologyArchaeologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415291135
ISBN13: 9780415291132
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 5 2002
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.09
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.84
Language: English

First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions are: that drinking has a real social role in everyday life; that drinking can be used to construct an ideal world; and that drinking is a significant economic activity. The case studies deal with a variety of exotic drinks

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