Expressions of drunkenness (four hundred rabbits) / edited by Anne Fox and Mike MacAvoy

Published:: New York : Routledge, [2011]
Copyright Date:: ©2011
Physical Description:: xvii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Fox, Anne and MacAvoy, Mike

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Series:

Series on alcohol in society

Contents:

Voices in the debate / Marcus Grant, Mike MacAvoy -- The biology of intoxication / Creina Stockley, John B. Saunders -- Case study 2.1. Legal response to intoxication and drunkenness / Hurst Hannum -- The origins of drunkenness / Anne Fox -- Case study 3.1. The round: alcohol and social connection---an anthropological approach / Véronique Nahoum-Grappe -- Case study 3.2. Indigenous Australians and alcohol / Creina Stockley, Anne Fox -- Drunkenness---a historical and contemporary cross-cultural perspective: "a voluntary madness" / Fiona Measham -- Case study 4.1. A peculiarly Australian phenomenon: the six o'clock swill / Billie Atanasova -- Drinking contexts and youth drunkenness / Betsy Thom, with Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl -- Case study 5.1. Drunkenness on the U.K. political agenda / Jean Coussins -- Concluding remarks / Trish Worth.

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ISBN:

9780415992138 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0415992133 (hbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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