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The American Experience with Alcohol - Contrasting Cultural Perspectives (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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The American Experience with Alcohol - Contrasting Cultural Perspectives (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of
culture and alcohol in the United States. Its appearance is also a
milestone in the history of alcohol studies in American
anthropology. Over the last six years, the volume's editors,
initially along with Miriam Rodin, have served as the coorganizers
of the Alcohol and Drug Study Group of the American Anthropological
Association (AAA). In this capacity, they have organized sessions
at the AAA and other meetings, greatly strengthened the research
network with a regular and informative newsletter, and
painstakingly promoted the publication of anthropological work on
al cohol and drugs. Appearing just as the responsibility for the
Study Group is passed on to others, this book is a fitting emblem
of the care and energy with which its editors have built an
institutional nexus for alcohol and drug anthropology in North
America. The contents of this volume offer a uniquely wide sampling
of the diversity of cultural patterns that make up the American
experience with alcohol. The collective portrait the editors have
assembled extends in several dimensions: through time and history,
across such social differ entiations as gender, age-grade, and
social class, and through such major social institutions as the
church and the family. Clearly the dominant dimension of variation
in the material that follows, however, is ethnicity. The book
offers us a sampler of unprecedented richness of the different
experiences with alcohol of American ethnoreligious groups."
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