Cultures of Intoxication. [Past and Present Supplement No. 9].

Ed. Phil Withington and Angela McShane

ISBN 10: 0198715625 / ISBN 13: 9780198715627

Published by Oxford University Press., 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cultures of Intoxication. [Past and Present Supplement No. 9].
• Publisher: Oxford University Press.
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198715625
• ISBN 13: 9780198715627
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Articles include: Intoxication and Sociality: The Symposium in the Ancient Greek World; 'Tuned Out or Tuned In': Spirituality and Drug Use in Global Times; Indians and Drunkenness in Spanish America; Alcohol in the Islamic Middle East: Ambivalence and Ambiguity; Modernity, Tradition, and Intoxication: Comparative Lessons from South America and West Africa; Double Vision: The Ambivalent Imagery of Drunkenness in Early Modern Europe; Health, Intoxication and Civil Conversation in Renaissance England; Psychedelic Drugs and the Problem of Experience; Target America: Visual Culture, Neuroimaging, and the 'Hijacked Brain' Theory of Addiction; The Taste of Opium: Science, Monopoly and Japanese Colonization in Taiwan, 1895-1945; Material Culture and 'Political Drinking' in Seventeenth-Century England; Wine, Corruption, and the Politics of Intoxication in Eighteenth-Century Stockholm.