ISBN:
9780415086677
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (201 p)
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Parallel Title:
Print version Alcohol, Gender and Culture
DDC:
394.13
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Contributors show how in countries across Europe, alcohol plays a significant role in cultural, religious and social identities, and how drinking practices can provide an analytical tool with which to approach different socio-cultural groups
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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