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Drunken Comportment
Macandrew, Craig; Edgerton, Robert B.
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Description for Drunken Comportment
Paperback. 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.' Series: Ewp Foundations of Anthropology. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
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.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Eliot Werner Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Series
Ewp Foundations of Anthropology
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Clinton Corners, United States
ISBN
9780971958760
SKU
V9780971958760
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About Macandrew, Craig; Edgerton, Robert B.
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)
Reviews for Drunken Comportment
'[P]robably the most original contribution ever to come from anthropological research on alcohol.' (John J. Honigmannin, Social Forces) '[A] happy blending of good psychology and anthropology.' (Nancy Oestreich Luriein, American Anthropologist) '[A]rguably the best-recognized conceptual contribution from the ethnographic literature to alcohol studies in general.' (Robin Roomin, Social ... Read more