International Handbook On Alcohol And Culture

Author : Dwight B. Heath
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313034381

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International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture by Dwight B. Heath Pdf

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 world. An extensive introduction discusses the close link between alcohol and culture and provides a foundation for the rest of the book. Each of the following chapters is written by an expert contributor and discusses alcohol and culture in a particular country. Chapters discuss historical trends, drinking among ethnic and religious minorities, national policies, and social outcomes. Countries range from industrial nations known for their alcohol research, to developing nations and to places famous for drinking. A concluding chapter highlights important similarities and differences.

Author : Dwight B. Heath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135841874

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Drinking Occasions by Dwight B. Heath Pdf

The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety of drinking occasions that exist around the world, primarily in modern, industrialized countries. As such, it celebrates the diversity of normal drinking behavior and illustrates a wide range of beneficial drinking patterns. Attention is also paid to the relations between drink and culture that prevail in non-Western societies and in developing countries. The aims of the book are twofold: to deal directly with the challenge of how to define responsible drinking in the face of the world's many different drinking styles, and to portray the many ways in which people have thought about or used alcohol as an integral part of their culture

Author : Alan Haworth,Ronald Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135951115

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Moonshine Markets by Alan Haworth,Ronald Simpson Pdf

Moonshine Markets, the sixth book in the ICAP Series on Alcohol in Society, explores consumption patterns of a type of alcohol that is generally, but not exclusively, illegal in most of the countries where it is consumed.

Author : Marcus Grant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0876309783

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Alcohol and Emerging Markets by Marcus Grant Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Marcus Grant,Jorge Litvak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1560327189

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Drinking Patterns and Their Consequences by Marcus Grant,Jorge Litvak Pdf

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

Author : Daniel Frings,Ian P. Albery
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128168868

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The Handbook of Alcohol Use by Daniel Frings,Ian P. Albery Pdf

Alcohol use is complex and multifaceted. Our understanding must be also. Alcohol use, both problematic and not, can be understood at many levels – from basic biological systems through to global public health interventions. To provide the multi-level perspective needed to address this complexity, the Handbook of Alcohol Use draws together an eclectic set of authors, including both researchers and practitioners, to examine the causes, processes and effects of alcohol consumption. Specifically, this book approaches the topic from biological, individual cognition, small group/systems, and domestic/global population perspectives. Each examines alcohol use differently and each offers its own ways to combat problematic behavior. While these alternative viewpoints are sometimes construed as incompatible or antagonistic, the current volume also explores how they can be complimentary.In summary, the Handbook of Alcohol Use brings together an international group of experts to explore how alcohol use can be understood from various perspectives and how these conceptualizations relate. In doing so, it allows us to understand alcohol consumption, and our responses to it, more from an account which spans ‘from synapse to society’. Explores alcohol use from individual through to societal levels Synthesizes these varied levels of analysis on alcohol use Draws on an international team of experts including researchers and alcohol treatment practitioners Makes clear the implications of research for practice (and vice versa)

Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781610441827

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Addiction by Jon Elster Pdf

Addiction focuses on the emergence, nature, and persistence of addictive behavior, as well as the efforts of addicts to overcome their condition. Do addicts act of their own free will, or are they driven by forces beyond their control? Do structured treatment programs offer more hope for recovery? What causes relapses to occur? Recent scholarship has focused attention on the voluntary aspects of addiction, particularly the role played by choice. Addiction draws upon this new research and the investigations of economists, psychiatrists, philosophers, neuropharmacologists, historians, and sociologists to offer an important new approach to our understanding of addictive behavior. The notion that addicts favor present rewards over future gains or penalties echoes throughout the chapters in Addiction. The effect of cultural values and beliefs on addicts, and on those who treat them, is also explored, particularly in chapters by Elster on alcoholism and by Acker on American heroin addicts in the 1920s and 1930s. Essays by Gardner and by Waal and Mørland discuss the neurobiological roots of addiction Among their findings are evidence that addictive drugs also have an important effect on areas of the central nervous system unrelated to euphoria or dysphoria, and that tolerance and withdrawal phenomena vary greatly from drug to drug. The plight of addicts struggling to regain control of their lives receives important consideration in Addiction. Elster, Skog, and O'Donoghue and Rabin look at self-administered therapies ranging from behavioral modifications to cognitive techniques, and discuss conditions under which various treatment strategies work. Drug-based forms of treatment are discussed by Gardner, drawing on work that suggests that parts of the population have low levels of dopamine, inducing a tendency toward sensation-seeking. There are many different explanations for the impulsive, self-destructive behavior that is addiction. By bringing the triple perspective of neurobiology, choice, and culture to bear on the phenomenon, Addiction offers a unique and valuable source of information and debate on a problem of world-wide proportions.

Author : Stanton Peele,Marcus Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134941575

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Alcohol and Pleasure by Stanton Peele,Marcus Grant Pdf

There is no simple threshold between the experience of drinking and the pleasure it can bring on the one hand and the pain and suffering caused by alcohol abuse on the other. But if we are to understand the role of alcohol in society, then at the very least we need to acknowledge the pleasure as well as the pain. Alcohol and Pleasure aims to bring together existing knowledge on the role of pleasure in drinking and determine whether the concept is useful for scientific understanding and policy consideration.

Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351604987

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States of Intoxication by John O'Brien Pdf

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to examine our ambivalent attitudes to alcohol in the modern West. From anthropological research on non-Western, non-modern cultures, the author demonstrates that the use of alcohol or other psychoactive substances is a universal across human societies, and indeed, has tended to be seen as unproblematic, or even a sacred aspect of culture, often used in a highly ritualised context. From historical sociology, it is shown that alcohol has also been central to the process of state formation, not only as a crucial source of revenue, but also through having an important role in the formation of political communities, which frequently are a source of existential fear for ruling groups. Tracing this contradictory position occupied by alcohol over the course of history and civilisation, States of Intoxication sheds light on the manner in which it has produced the very peculiar modern perspective on alcohol.

Author : Peter J. Adams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780387726618

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Fragmented Intimacy by Peter J. Adams Pdf

Here is the first major work that examines the benefits of applying social understanding to addiction. The author demonstrates how a social perspective shifts the paradigm from viewing a person in terms of "particles" to viewing a person in terms of relationships. This reorientation creates promising new opportunities for intervention. The book discusses recent advances in theories on community capacity building, resilience, and social ecology alongside their practical applications. Written in an engaging style, the book features numerous vignettes, key points, and illustrations that help you apply the material in your own practice.

Author : Helen R. Haines,Clare A. Sammells
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607320159

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Adventures in Eating by Helen R. Haines,Clare A. Sammells Pdf

Anthropologists training to do fieldwork in far-off, unfamiliar places prepare for significant challenges with regard to language, customs, and other cultural differences. However, like other travelers to unknown places, they are often unprepared to deal with the most basic and necessary requirement: food. Although there are many books on the anthropology of food, Adventures in Eating is the first intended to prepare students for the uncomfortable dining situations they may encounter over the course of their careers. Whether sago grubs, jungle rats, termites, or the pungent durian fruit are on the table, participating in the act of sharing food can establish relationships vital to anthropologists' research practices and knowledge of their host cultures. Using their own experiences with unfamiliar-and sometimes unappealing-food practices and customs, the contributors explore such eating moments and how these moments can produce new understandings of culture and the meaning of food beyond the immediate experience of eating it. They also address how personal eating experiences and culinary dilemmas can shape the data and methodologies of the discipline. The main readership of Adventures in Eating will be students in anthropology and other scholars, but the explosion of food media gives the book additional appeal for fans of No Reservations and Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel.

Author : Emeka W. Dumbili
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031533181

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Reconfiguring Drinking Cultures, Gender, and Transgressive Selves by Emeka W. Dumbili Pdf

Author : Gerry Stimson,Marcus Grant,Marie Choquet,Preston Garrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135918910

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Drinking in Context by Gerry Stimson,Marcus Grant,Marie Choquet,Preston Garrison Pdf

Drinking beverage alcohol is a widespread source of individual and social pleasure in most countries around the world. Yet, some drinking patterns can lead to serious physical, mental, and social harms. Drinking in Context is intended to complement existing volumes dealing with international alcohol policy by focusing on three main themes: drinking patterns, targeted interventions, and partnership development. An understanding that patterns of drinking are important predictors of outcomes has led to a growing realization that alcohol policies and prevention strategies need to focus on excessive or irresponsible drinking. As a result, there has been a shift towards interventions that address the targeted reduction of harm. These approaches recognize socio-cultural differences and avoid trying to impose a one-size-fits-all solution. In this context, multi-stakeholder partnerships offer an excellent opportunity to promote the complex mix of measures required by each society. Shared responsibilities lead to shared solutions.

Author : Eleni Houghton,Anne M. Roche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134945702

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Learning About Drinking by Eleni Houghton,Anne M. Roche Pdf

This book is based on the premise that drinking behaviors are primarily learned. The contributors to the book explore the complex array of individual and social factors that impact the development of drinking patterns. They traverse family and culture influences, and the role played by schools, government, and the beverage alcohol industry. Learning About Drinking offers a rigorous and scholarly examination of drinking behavior brought to life with illustrative cases drawn from around the world. Social policymakers, historians, anthropologists, public health specialists, as well as mental health professionals will find this book of value. Learning About Drinking offers a refreshing, evidence-based look at a process that has too often been taken for granted.

Author : Linda Hutcheon,Michael Hutcheon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803223854

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Bodily Charm by Linda Hutcheon,Michael Hutcheon Pdf

Studies the musical, textual, dramatic, and narrative ways in which opera performers use and give meaning to their physical bodies, and analyzes the ways the audience perceives physicality during performances.