ISBN:
9789004409637
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 392 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Brill's Southeast Asian library volume 8
Series Statement:
Brill's Southeast Asian library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jákl, Jiří Alcohol in early Java
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jákl, Jiří Alcohol in early Java
DDC:
394.1/3095982
Keywords:
Drinking of alcoholic beverages History
;
Drinking of alcoholic beverages Social aspects
;
Alcoholic beverages History
;
Javanese (Indonesian people) Social life and customs
;
Java (Indonesia) History 16th century
;
Java
;
Alkohol
;
Alkoholkonsum
;
Geschichte Anfänge-1500
Abstract:
"In Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, Jiří Jákl offers an account of the production, trade, and consumption of alcohol in Java before 1500 CE, and discusses a whole array of meanings the Javanese have ascribed to its use. Though alcohol is extremely controversial in contemporary Islamic Java, it had multiple, often surprising, uses in the pre-Islamic society"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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