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Drink, Power, and Cultural Change
This book highlights alcohol's centrality in the culture of power.
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Hardcover
First published November 18, 1996
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September 27, 2015A cultural study of social usage of liquor in southern Ghana from 1800 to present. Akyeampong explores how control of alcohol by village or clan elders acts as a force for "soft compulsion". Also explains how the Odwira festival promotes the release of social tension by using the pretext of inebriation to promote airing of grievances.
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