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Constructive drinking : perspectives on drink from anthropology

An anthropological approach to the study of drink, showing how potentially addictive beverages are used to mark social occasions, and form and maintain relationships; how they fulfil the ritual function of constructing a bearable, intelligible world; and how they are economically important.
Print Book, English, 1991
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Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme, Cambridge, New York, 1991
Cross-cultural studies
ix, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521406444, 9782735104000, 9780521335041, 9782735101771, 0521406447, 2735104001, 0521335043, 2735101770
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"Sponsored by the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food"--Preliminary page
"This volume is sponsored by the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food."--Added t.p. verso