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First British edition. Before this classic work, the emerging multidisciplinary field of alcohol studies was dominated by biology, chemistry, physiology, and other "hard sciences." As such, this work challenged the prevailing wisdom in the authors' use of historical, ethnographic, and cross-cultural data and their analysis of drinking behavior as an anthropological and sociocultural phenomenon.
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About the Author:
Craig MacAndrew, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California Robert B. Edgerton, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Dwight B. Heath, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island [new foreword]
Review:
From the Foreword to the Percheron Press Edition "[O]ne of only a few books that can truly be said to have had a major impact on our understanding of alcohol use and its outcomes." From the reviews "[P]robably the most original contribution ever to come from anthropological research on alcohol." John J. Honigmann in Social Forces "[A] happy blending of good psychology and anthropology." Nancy Oestreich Lurie in American Anthropologist "[A]rguably the best-recognized conceptual contribution from the ethnographic literature to alcohol studies in general." Robin Room in Social Science and Medicine
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- PublisherNelson
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0171380339
- ISBN 13 9780171380330
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages197
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