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Title Cultures of intoxication / edited by Phil Withington and Angela McShane.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
©2014

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.292 C899 2014    ---  Available
Description 310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
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Series Past and present supplements ; supplement 9, 2014
Past and present supplements ; v. 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Cultures of intoxication / Phil Withington -- Intoxication and sociality : the symposium in the ancient Greek world / Robin Osborne -- 'Tuned out or tuned in' : spirituality and youth drug use in global times / Karen Joe-Laidler, Geoffrey Hunt, and Molly Moloney -- Indians and drunkenness in Spanish America / Rebecca Earle -- Alcohol in the Islamic Middle East : ambivalence and ambiguity / Rudi Matthee -- Modernity, tradition, and intoxication : comparative lessons from South Africa and West Africa / Paul Nugent -- Double vision : the ambivalent imagery of drunkenness in early modern Europe / Tom Nichols -- Health, intoxication, and civil conversation in Renaissance England / Jennifer Richards -- Psychedelic drugs and the problem of experience / Sarah Shortall -- Target America : visual culture, neuroimaging, and the 'hijacked brain' theory of addiction / Timothy A. Hickman -- The taste of opium : science, monopoly, and the Japanese colonization in Taiwan, 1895-1945 / Hung Bin Hsu -- Material culture and 'political drinking' in seventeenth-century England / Angela McShane -- Wine, corruption, and the politics of intoxication in eighteenth-century Stockholm / Karin Sennefelt.
Subject Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects.
Drug abuse -- Social aspects.
Drinking customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
Drug abuse -- Cross-cultural studies.
Alcoholic Intoxication -- ethnology. (DNLM)D000435Q000208
Alcohol Drinking -- ethnology. (DNLM)D000428Q000208
Street Drugs. (DNLM)D013287
Substance-Related Disorders -- ethnology. (DNLM)D019966Q000208
Behavior, Addictive -- ethnology. (DNLM)D016739Q000208
Cross-Cultural Comparison. (DNLM)D003431
Drinking customs. (OCoLC)fst00898195
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00898234
Drug abuse. (OCoLC)fst00898480
Drug abuse -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00898568
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst01423769
Added Author Withington, Phil, editor.
McShane, Angela, 1959- editor.
ISBN 9780198715627
0198715625
0198715627

 
    
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