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Title:

Cultures of intoxication / edited by Phil Withington and Angela McShane.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects.
Drug abuse--Social aspects.
Drinking customs--Cross-cultural studies.
Drug abuse--Cross-cultural studies.
Droge.
Kultur.
Rausch.
Rauschgift.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Other Authors:

Withington, Phil, editor.
McShane, Angela, 1959- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Wine, corruption, and the politics of intoxication in eighteenth-century Stockholm / Karin Sennefelt. Intoxication and sociality : the symposium in the ancient Greek world / Robin Osborne -- 'Tuned out or tuned in' : spirituality and youth drug use in global times / Karen Joe-Laidler, Geoffrey Hunt, and Molly Moloney -- Indians and drunkenness in Spanish America / Rebecca Earle -- Alcohol in the Islamic Middle East : ambivalence and ambiguity / Rudi Matthee -- Modernity, tradition, and intoxication : comparative lessons from South Africa and West Africa / Paul Nugent -- Double vision : the ambivalent imagery of drunkenness in early modern Europe / Tom Nichols -- Health, intoxication, and civil conversation in Renaissance England / Jennifer Richards -- Psychedelic drugs and the problem of experience / Sarah Shortall -- Target America : visual culture, neuroimaging, and the 'hijacked brain' theory of addiction / Timothy A. Hickman -- The taste of opium : science, monopoly, and the Japanese colonization in Taiwan, 1895-1945 / Hung Bin Hsu -- Material culture and 'political drinking' in seventeenth-century England / Angela McShane -- Wine, corruption, and the politics of intoxication in eighteenth-century Stockholm / Karin Sennefelt.

Series:

Past and present supplements ; supplement 9, 2014

ISBN:

9780198715627
0198715625

OCLC:

(OCoLC)880677655

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)