Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance

By Jiří Jákl

In Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, Jiř J kl offers an account of the production, trade, and consumption of alcohol in Java before 1500 CE, and discusses a whole array of meanings the Javanese have ascribed to its use. Though alcohol is extremely controversial in contemporary Islamic Java, it had multiple, often surprising, uses in the pre-Islamic society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004409637
• ISBN13: 9789004409637
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"