International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture

by Dwight B. Heath

The first authoritative guide to how the world drinks, this reference details alcohol use in different countries and cultures. Variation is striking, with alcohol sometimes a food, a sacrament, a symbol, a tool, a tranquilizer, a medicine, a love potion, or an object of scorn--often with very different meanings and uses in a single country. This volume reveals multicultural and ethnic beliefs, practices, and attitudes about drinking around the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313252343
• ISBN13: 9780313252341
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"