ISBN:
0-415-08667-1
,
978-0-415-08667-7
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 190 Seiten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
Keywords:
Europa Griechenland
;
Spanien
;
Frankreich
;
Schweden
;
Ungarn
;
Irland
;
Ägypten
;
Alkohol
;
Bier
;
Wein
;
Trinken
;
Kultursoziologie
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Tagungsbericht
;
Soziokultureller Kontext
Abstract:
Europeans constitute 12.5 percent of the world's population but consume fifty percent of the recorded world production of alchohol. The role of alcohol-- sometimes social, sometimes ceremonial--plays a significant role in the cultural, religious and social identities of these countries. The majority of studies on alcohol have ignored the importance of cultural variation.In Alcohol, Gender and Culture, the contributors show how different groups define the proper use of alcohol, how state policies may affect drinking behavior, highlighting how beverages and combustibles must be seen in relation to each other. From this it is shown how important socio-cultural distinctions are made between and within ethnic groups, socio-economic groups, genders and religious ideologies. What one drinks, how one drinks, with whom, and where all influence not only how alcoholic substances are perceived, but how social relations are experienced as well.Alcohol, Gender and Culture presents material from Greece, Spain, France, Hungary, Sweden and Ireland to show how the social construction of drinking may provide an analytical tool with which to approach different socio-cultural groups. The contributors demonstrate how any cultural group can be compared to another through its attitudes to alcohol. Alcohol, Gender and Culture is an invaluable reading for students and scholars of anthropology, cultural history and gender studies. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of 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; 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:
"This book is an outgrowth of a panel on Alcohol Commensality, Gender Roles and Religion in European Societies, part of the first EASA Conference in Coimbra, Portugal, during 3-7 September 1990." (Preface)Enthält eine Einführung und 9 Beiträge
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