Alcohol, gender, and culture /

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Contributors show how in countries across Europe, alcohol plays a significant role in cultural, religious and social identities, and how drinking practices can provide an analytical tool with which to approach different socio-cultural groups.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gefou-Madianou, Dimitra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Series:European Association of Social Anthropologists.
Subjects:
Drinking customs > Europe > Cross-cultural studies.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Cross-cultural studies.
Women > Alcohol use > Europe > Cross-cultural studies.
Men > Alcohol use > Europe > Cross-cultural studies.
Boissons > Fonctions sociales > Europe > Études transculturelles.
Consommation d'alcool > Études transculturelles.
Femmes > Europe > Consommation d'alcool > Études transculturelles.
Hommes > Consommation d'alcool > Europe > Études transculturelles.
Femmes > Consommation d'alcool > Europe > Études transculturelles.
Drinking customs
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Men > Alcohol use
Women > Alcohol use
Alcoholgebruik.
Seksen.
Culturele aspecten.
Boissons alcoolisées > Études transculturelles.
Boissons > Consommation > Europe > Etudes culturelles.
Hommes > Europe > Consommation d'alcool > Études transculturelles.
Alcoolisme > Europe > Sociologie.
Europe
Popular culture > Role of > Alcoholic drinks
Cross-cultural studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Bjerén
  • No fishing without drinking : the construction of social identity in rural Ireland / Adrian Peace.

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