Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 403 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780197603031
Content:
The first book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore intoxicating drinks and styles of drinking, as well as sophisticated rationales for abstinence found in South Asia from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE.
Content:
Cover -- An Unholy Brew -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Aperitif: Surā, the Prototypical Liquor of India -- ROUND ONE DRINKS AND DRINKING -- Cup 1: Surā Made from Grains -- Cup 2: Sugarcane, Wine, Toddy, and Other Drinks -- Cup 3: Surā Brewing and Public Drinking -- Cup 4: Luxurious, Erotic Drinking in Literary Texts -- Cup 5: Drink, Health, and Disease in Āyurvedic Texts -- ROUND TWO DRINK AND RELIGION -- Cup 6: Drink in Ritual, Myths, and Epic -- Cup 7: The Filth of Grain and the Pain of Drink: Morality, Vice, and Law -- Cup 8: Surā Regained: Drink in Tantra -- Cup 9: Firewater and Corpse-Reviver: Alcohol in Later Sanskrit Sources -- Digestif: What Do We Do about This Stuff That Makes Everything Go Awry? -- Appendix: Soma, Ancient Drugs, and Modern Scholars -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199375943
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199375936
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McHugh, James An unholy brew New York : Oxford University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780199375943
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199375936
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Indien
;
Alkohol
;
Geschichte
;
Sanskrit
;
Literatur
;
Alkohol
