Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology

by Mary Douglas (Editor)

First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions that drinking has a real social role in everyday life; that drinking can be used to construct an ideal world; and that drinking is a significant economic activity. The case studies deal with a variety of exotic drinks

Genres: Anthropology, Food

300 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 1987

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

Scanned 2-3 chapters and returned. Overall it didn't seem too fascinating but contains a fairly in-depth bibliography by Heath covering 1970-80 which updates his "A critical review of ethnographic studies of alcohol use" (1975) that I have read.