Social and Cultural Aspects of Drinking

Social and Cultural Aspects of Drinking

Contents

• Foreword by Desmond Morris
• Introduction
• Key findings
  • History
  • Behavioural effects
  • Alcohol-related problems
  • Rules and regulation
  • Symbolic functions
  • Drinking-places
  • Transitional rituals
  • Festive rituals
  • European research
• The origins of alcoholic beverages (Additional Chapter)
• Culture, chemistry and consequences
  • The ‘natural experiment’
  • Drunken comportment
  • Learned effects of alcohol
  • Expectations and excuses
  • Changing expectations
• Rules and regulation
  • Variations
  • Significant constants
    • Social control
    • Restrictions on female and ‘underage’ drinking
• Social and cultural roles of alcohol
  • Symbolic roles
  • Roles of drinking-places
  • Ritual roles
  • Why alcohol?
  • Need for further research
• Europe: future directions
• Bibliography

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