ISBN:
0203504569
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9780203504567
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9781135935368
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113593536X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vii, 216 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mitchell, Timothy (Timothy J.) Intoxicated identities
DDC:
394.130972
Keywords:
Drinking of alcoholic beverages Mexico
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Alcoholism Mexico
;
Consommation d'alcool Mexique
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Alcoolisme Mexique
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Mexico
;
Alcoholism
;
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions
;
Alcoholism
;
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
;
Mexico
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
1. Time-warping in Tenochtitlán -- 2. Anthropologists and alcoholics -- 3. After fifteen or twenty drinks -- 4. Bodies and memories -- 5 Allá en el Rancho Grande -- 6. Death-wish aesthetics -- 7. Spousal assault rituals, then and now -- 8. The Pedro Infante generation -- 9. Thirsty urban nomads.
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
InIntoxicated Identities, Tim Mitchell provides a novel and well-grounded framework for understanding subjective drinking experiences from the Aztecs to the present day in areas as diverse as Chiapas, Chihuahua, Oaxaca, Mexico City, Texas and California. Power drinking plays a crucial role in Mexican religion, politics, fine arts and ritual spousal abuse. Mexico ranks number one in deaths from cirrhosis, and Mexican Americans are twice as likely to be arrested for drunken driving as blacks or whites. With methods and concepts derived from an extraordinary range of disciplines, Mitchell explains how Mexican culture reinforces heavy drinking. He analyzes supply (nationalistic marketing strategies) but emphasizes demand (psychocultural motivations unique to Mexico). He chronicles the joys and sorrows of a borrachera, or drinking binge, and explores this altered state of consciousness on its own terms, not from any temperance or anti-alcohol perspective
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index. - Print version record
