Anthropology of food · 2001 · 20 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesAnthropologyCultural AnthropologyEnvironmental AnthropologyEthnographyAnthropology Of ConsumptionAnthropology Of FoodConsumption PracticesHistory Of ConsumptionInterpretive AnthropologySymbolic AnthropologyAlcohol Consumption PatternsConsuming IdentitiesDrinking ContextsEthnography Of Consumption
In the study of the Anthropology of Food, Drinking has occupied a marginal and specific position. It is only recently that anthropologists have started to claim that they have a distinctive perspective on Drinking and if ‘according to Dwight Heath few anthropologists before the 1970s would set out deliberately to study patterns of thought and action concerning drink, they had nevertheless written a great deal on alcohol’. The publication in the 1980s of ‘Constructive Drinking’ by Mary Douglas...