ISBN:
9780192579973
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
394.13
Keywords:
Drinking of alcoholic beverages-History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. This fascinating multi-disciplinary volume examines the broad use of alcohol in the human lineage and its wider relationship to social contexts such as feasting, sacred rituals, and social bonding.
Abstract:
Cover -- Alcohol and Humans -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 2. The Natural Biology of Dietary Ethanol, and its Implications for Primate Evolution -- 3. Hominoid Adaptation to Dietary Ethanol -- 4. The Importance of Raffia Palm Wine to Coexisting Humans and Chimpanzees -- 5. The Earliest Toasts: Archaeological Evidence of the Social and Cultural Construction of Alcohol in Prehistoric Europe -- 6. Uncorking the Past: Alcoholic Fermentation as Humankind's First Biotechnology -- 7. Rituals and Feasting as Incentives for Cooperative Action at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe -- 8. Alcohol as Embodied Material Culture: Anthropological Reflections on the Deep Entanglement of Humans and Alcohol -- 9. The Nature of Sweetness: An Indigenous Fermentation Complex in Amazonian Guyana -- 10. Chicha as Water: Traditional Fermented Beer Consumption Among Forager-Horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon -- 11. Feasting and its Role in Human Community Formation -- 12. Through the Drinking Glass: A Long History of Pints and Performative Materialities in England -- 13. Alcohol and Humans: Reflections and Prospects -- Index.
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