Liquid bread : beer and brewing in cross-cultural perspective /

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"Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisciplinary, cross-cultural collection about beer. It explores the brewing processes u...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Schiefenhövel, Wulf, 1943- (Editor), Macbeth, Helen M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Series:Anthropology of food and nutrition ; v. 7.
Subjects:
Drinking customs > Cross-cultural studies.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Cross-cultural studies.
Beer > Social aspects.
Brewing > Social aspects.
Boissons > Fonctions sociales > Études transculturelles.
Consommation d'alcool > Études transculturelles.
Bière > Aspect social.
Brassage > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Beer > Social aspects
Drinking customs
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Bierbrouwen.
Drinkgewoonten.
Sociale geschiedenis.
Cross-cultural studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Assembling perspectives on beer / Wulf Schiefenhövel and Helen Macbeth
  • Natural ingestion of ethanol by animals : why? / W.C. McGrew
  • Healthy or detrimental? Physiological, psychiatric and evolutionary aspects of drinking beer / Peter Kaiser, Gerhard Medicus and Martin Brüne
  • Beer : how it's made : the basics of brewing / Keith Thomas
  • Interdisciplinary investigations into the brewing technology of the Ancient Near East and the potential of the cold mashing process / Martin Zarnkow, Adelheid Otto and Berthold Einwag
  • Beer in prehistoric Europe / Hans-Peter Stika
  • Beer and beer culture in Germany / Franz Meusdoerffer
  • Europe north and south, beer and wine : some reflections about beer and Mediterranean food / F. Xavier Medina
  • Living in the streets : beer acceptance in Andalusia during the twentieth century / Isabel González Turmo
  • Thirst for tradition : beer production and consumption in the United Kingdom / Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth
  • Beer in the Czech Republic / Jana Parízková and Martina Vlkova
  • Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in German and American fraternities : anthropological and social psychological aspects / Gerhard Dammann
  • Rugby, racing and beer in New Zealand : colonising a consumer culture / Nancy J. Pollock
  • Beer, ritual and conviviality in Northern Cameroon / Igor de Garine
  • Gender of beer : beer symbolism among the Kapsiki/Higi and the Dogon / Walter van Beek
  • Ritual use of beer in South-West Tanzania / Ruth Kutalek
  • Brewing sorghum beer in Burkina Faso : a study in food technology from the perspective of anthropological linguistics / François Belliard
  • Rice beer and social cohesion in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak / Monica Janowski
  • Tradition and change : beer consumption in Northeast Luzon, Philippines / Dante M. Aquino and Gerard A. Persoon
  • Culture, market and beer consumption / Mabel Gracia Arnaiz
  • Beer and European media : global vs. local / Luis Cantarero and Monica Stacconi.

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