1st Edition
States of Intoxication The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation
By John O'Brien
Copyright 2018
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Evolutionary Origins Of Control
2. The Social Origins Of Control
3. Alcohol And The Ritual Process: Identity
4. Alcohols And The Ritual Process: Decontrolling
5. The Limits Of Ritual
6. Proto States And Potlatches
7. Subversive States: The Case Of Russia
8. States, Revenue And Interdependence
9. The Politics Of Centralisation: Consumption And Taxation*
10. Peace, Violence And Trauma
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
John O’Brien is a Lecturer in Sociology at Waterford Institute of Technology.
