Drinking

Igor de Garine, Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, Paris, and President of the International Commission for the Anthropology of Food

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List of Figures and Map

List of Tables

Preface



Chapter 1. For a Pluridisciplinary Approach to Drinking

Igor de Garine



Chapter 2. Thirst and Drinking as a Biocultural Process

Luis Alberto Vargas



Chapter 3. Water and Drinking in an Ecological Context among Australian Aboriginal People Practising Traditional

Subsistence Methods

Stanley J. Ulijaszek



Chapter 4. Nor Any Drop to Drink: Everyday Drinking Habits in Pacific and New Zealand Societies

Nancy J. Pollock



Chapter 5. Drinking in Northern Cameroon among the Masa and Muzey

lgor de Garine



Chapter 6. Milk Consumption in African Pastoral Peoples

Michael A. Little, Sandra J. Gray and Benjamin C. Campbell



Chapter 7. The Drinking Ritual among the Maasai

Fouad N. lbrahim



Chapter 8. Changing Perceptions on Milk as a Drink in Western Europe: The Case of the Netherlands

Adel P. den Hartog



Chapter 9. Milk in the Mountains

Helen M. Macbeth



Chapter 10. Wine and Health: The Protective Role of Moderate Consumption

A.M.Troncoso, M.C. Garcia Parrilla and M.V. Martinez Ortega



Chapter 11. Drinking: An Almost Silent Language

Isabel González Turmo



Chapter 12. Gender and Drink in Aragon, Spain

Luis Cantarero Abad



Chapter 13. Tapeo: An Identity Model of Public Drink and Food Consumption in Spain

Amado Millan



Chapter 14. Cantinas and Drinkers in Mexico

Ricardo Avila Palafox



Chapter 15. Tamadoba: Drinking Social Cohesion at the Georgian Table

Mary Ellen Chatwin



Chapter 16. An Ethnographic Account of the Many Roles of Millet Beer in the Culture of the Duupa Agriculturalists, (Poli Mountains) Northern Cameroon

Eric Garine



Chapter 17. Socio-Economic and Cultural Implications of Alcoholic Beverages among the Abagusii of Western Kenya

Wilfred K. Subbo



Chapter 18. Alcohol, Slavery, and African Cultural Continuity in the British Caribbean

Frederick H.Smith



Chapter 19. Drinking in La Réunion: Between Living, Dying and Forgetting

Annie Hubert



Chapter 20. When is an Alcohol-Containing Substance Something Else? Southeast Asian Definitions

Christine S. Wilson



Chapter 21. Epilogue

Helen M. Macbeth



Index