The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking write by Frederick Harold Smith. This book was released on 2008. The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Publisher: Through its complex history, alcohol has served many cultural functions, often constructive ones. For centuries it has been used as a valuable economic commodity, a medicinal tool, a focus of social gatherings, and a mechanism for psychological escape.
Alcohol and Humans
Alcohol and Humans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alcohol and Humans write by Kimberley Hockings. This book was released on 2020-01-05. Alcohol and Humans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. The prevailing tendency to view alcohol merely as a 'social problem' or the popular notion that alcohol only serves to provide us with a 'hedonic' high, masks its importance in the social fabric of many human societies both past and present. To understand alcohol use, as a complex social practice that has been exploited by humans for thousands of years, requires cross-disciplinary insight from social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, psychologists, primatologists, and biologists. This multi-disciplinary volume examines the broad use of alcohol in the human lineage and its wider relationship to social contexts such as feasting, sacred rituals, and social bonding. Alcohol abuse is a small part of a much more complex and social pattern of widespread alcohol use by humans. This alone should prompt us to explore the evolutionary origins of this ancient practice and the socially functional reasons for its continued popularity. The objectives of this volume are: (1) to understand how and why nonhuman primates and other animals use alcohol in the wild, and its relevance to understanding the social consumption of alcohol in humans; (2) to understand the social function of alcohol in human prehistory; (3) to understand the sociocultural significance of alcohol across human societies; and (4) to explore the social functions of alcohol consumption in contemporary society. 'Alcohol in Humans' will be fascinating reading for those in the fields of biology, psychology, anthropology, archaeology, as well as those with a broader interest in addiction.
Volatile Spirits
Volatile Spirits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Volatile Spirits write by Frederick H. Smith. This book was released on 2001. Volatile Spirits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Alcohol
Alcohol - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alcohol write by Janet Chrzan. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Alcohol available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context critically examines alcohol use across cultures and through time. This short text is a framework for students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol, and a companion text for teaching the primary concepts of anthropology to first-or second year college students.
Uncorking the Past
Uncorking the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncorking the Past write by Patrick E. McGovern. This book was released on 2009-10-30. Uncorking the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a lively gastronomical tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating search for booze. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, brings us up to date on what we now know about the creation and history of alcohol, and the role of alcohol in society across cultures. Along the way, he integrates studies in food and sociology to explore a provocative hypothesis about the integral role that spirits have played in human evolution. We discover, for example, that the cereal staples of the modern world were probably domesticated in agrarian societies for their potential in fermenting large quantities of alcoholic beverages. These include the delectable rice wines of China and Japan, the corn beers of the Americas, and the millet and sorghum drinks of Africa. Humans also learned how to make mead from honey and wine from exotic fruits of all kinds: even from the sweet pulp of the cacao (chocolate) fruit in the New World. The perfect drink, it turns out-whether it be mind-altering, medicinal, a religious symbol, liquid courage, or artistic inspiration-has not only been a profound force in history, but may be fundamental to the human condition itself. This coffee table book will sate the curiosity of any armchair historian interested in the long history of food and wine.
