Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation (Foundations of Anthropology) - Softcover

MacAndrew, Craig; Edgerton, Robert B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971958769 ISBN 13: 9780971958760

Publisher: Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications, 2003

Synopsis

When Aldine originally published this book in 1969, the emerging multidisciplinary field of alcohol studies was dominated by biology, chemistry, physiology, and other "hard sciences." As such, writes Dwight Heath in his new foreword, the 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.

About this title

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0971958769
• ISBN 13: 9780971958760
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214