An Unholy Brew

Author : James McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197603031

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The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE. Books about the global history of alcohol almost never give attention to India. But a wide range of texts provide plenty of evidence that there was a thriving culture of drinking in ancient and medieval India, from public carousing at the brewery and drinking house to imbibing at festivals and weddings. There was also an elite drinking culture depicted in poetic texts (often in an erotic mode), and medical texts explain how to balance drink and health. By no means everyone drank, however, and there were many sophisticated religious arguments for abstinence. McHugh begins by surveying the intoxicating drinks that were available, including grain beers, palm toddy, and imported wine, detailing the ways people used grains, sugars, fruits, and herbs over the centuries to produce an impressive array of liquors. He presents myths that explain how drink came into being and how it was assigned the ritual and legal status it has in our time. The book also explores Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain moral and legal texts on drink and abstinence, as well as how drink is used in some Tantric rituals, and translates in full a detailed description of the goddess Liquor, Suradevi. Cannabis, betel, soma, and opium are also considered. Finally, McHugh investigates what has happened to these drinks, stories, and theories in the last few centuries. An Unholy Brew brings to life the overlooked, complex world of brewing, drinking, and abstaining in pre-modern India, and offers illuminating case studies on topics such as law and medicine, even providing recipes for some drinks.

Author : James Andrew McHugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Alcoholic beverages
ISBN : 019937595X

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"An Unholy Brew is the first book on alcohol in pre-modern India. Using a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kāmasūtra, McHugh explores the drinks, styles of drinking, and sophisticated theories of abstinence found in South Asia from our earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE. McHugh begins with the intoxicating drinks people devised over the centuries, made from grains, sugars, fruits, and herbs. Texts describe a number of types of drinking. We read of public drinking at the brewery-tavern, and at festivals and weddings. Poetic texts depict elite drinking, often in an erotic mode. Medical texts explain how a rich man should regulate his drinking correctly, and how to cure drink sickness. Myths and epic stories explain how drink came into being and was assigned the ritual and legal status it has today. McHugh also explores Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain moral and legal texts on drink and abstinence. Drink is used in some Tantric rituals, and the book presents an account of drink in the work of Kashmiri Abhinavagupta. One later Tantric text contains a detailed description of the goddess Liquor, Surā, translated here in full, along with considerations of cannabis and opium. Finally, what happened to these drinks, stories, and theories in the last few centuries? An Unholy Brew brings to life the overlooked, complex world of brewing, drinking (and abstaining) in pre-modern India, and includes clear case studies of topics such as law and medicine, along with recipes for drinks"--

Author : Jacqueline Dillion
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137503206

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Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance by Jacqueline Dillion Pdf

This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom’. This study shows how such traditions were lived out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in written texts – in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy’s repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and reveals how his efforts to resist their ‘excellently neat’ categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of belief, progress, and social change.

Author : Colleen Taylor Sen,Sourish Bhattacharyya,Helen Saberi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350128644

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indian Cuisine by Colleen Taylor Sen,Sourish Bhattacharyya,Helen Saberi Pdf

This reference work covers the cuisine and foodways of India in all their diversity and complexity, including regions, personalities, street foods, communities and topics that have been often neglected. The book starts with an overview essay situating the Great Indian Table in relation to its geography, history and agriculture, followed by alphabetically organized entries. The entries, which are between 150 and 1,500 words long, combine facts with history, anecdotes, and legends. They are supplemented by longer entries on key topics such as regional cuisines, spice mixtures, food and medicine, rites of passages, cooking methods, rice, sweets, tea, drinks (alcoholic and soft) and the Indian diaspora. This comprehensive volume illuminates contemporary Indian cooking and cuisine in tradition and practice.

Author : Ernest Thompson Seton
Publisher : Los Angeles : Phoenix Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Dogs
ISBN : MINN:31951001637620G

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Santana by Ernest Thompson Seton Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175035236986

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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00038141

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Thomas Hardy's Works by Hardy Pdf

Author : Charles E. Passage
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112317358

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The Russian Hoffmannists by Charles E. Passage Pdf

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Author : Henry Mayhew,Mark Lemon,Tom Taylor,Shirley Brooks,Francis Cowley Burnand,Owen Seaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010178973

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Punch by Henry Mayhew,Mark Lemon,Tom Taylor,Shirley Brooks,Francis Cowley Burnand,Owen Seaman Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Atonement
ISBN : UVA:X000242368

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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Christopher A. Faraone,Dirk Obbink
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195111408

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Magika Hiera by Christopher A. Faraone,Dirk Obbink Pdf

Annotation This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "magical" practices in Greek religion. The contributors survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence formagical practices in the Greek world, and, in each case, determine whether the traditional dichotomy between magic and religion helps in any way to conceptualize the objective features of the evidence examined. Contributors include Christopher A. Faraone, J.H.M. Strubbe, H.S. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eitrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, and C.R. Phillips.

Author : Martin Black
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798885056793

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The Street Bible by Martin Black Pdf

Real Nigga cracked the code put together the greatest story that's ever been told. Guaranteed to grip the soul of the young and the old. Blazing heat on one page the next freezing cold. Make its reader lose then gain complete control. Buy your copy right now and learn how to turn all of your life's bullshit into pure gold.

Author : Gretchen Evans
Publisher : Sadist Ink
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Familiar with Murder by Gretchen Evans Pdf

Soon after a young witch has her first menses, tradition says that her magic begins to mature fully, and that part of this process is the arrival of her familiar. Except for Melody, that hasn't quite happened just yet. She always had thought of herself as a late bloomer, but her magical affirmation hasn't happened yet, and she thinks it might not happen for her at all. If only she could ask her mother, but her mother is passed and she has to rely on her quirky aunt to guide her through all of this. Despite this quandary, it's Melody’s favorite holiday, All Hallow's Eve, when the veil thins and the ghosts of lives passed can be seen. But when a tormented soul attaches himself to Melody, she might just need her magic to solve how he died. Hopefully it will come so she can help this poor guy to eternal peace. If that wasn't enough, her old high school crush, Colin MacAlister back in town. That's Detective MacAlister to Melody. He can only cast doubt when Melody is certain she knows who the murderer is. With a little bit of patience and the guidance of her aunt, Melody might just find her path to unlocking her magic. But until then, she's off exploring the strange and wonderful world of Hills Hollow with its secrets around every corner. Will her adventures lead her to unlock her own power or will she remain in the darkness? Will her familiar finally emerge? Only if she's Familiar with Murder.

Author : Louis Glenn Locke,William Merriam Gibson,George Arms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015030769130

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Toward liberal education by Louis Glenn Locke,William Merriam Gibson,George Arms Pdf

Author : John J. Winkler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134975808

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The Constraints of Desire by John J. Winkler Pdf

For centuries, classical scholars have intensely debated the "position of women" in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power, or were they little better than slaves? Using methods developed from feminist anthropology, Winkler steps back from this narrowly framed question and puts it in the larger context of how sex and gender in ancient Greece were culturally constructed. His innovative approach uncovers the very real possibilities for female autonomy that existed in Greek society.