At 09:33 AM 12/7/96 -500, you wrote:
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>Sender:       Alcohol and Temperance History Group <[log in to unmask]>
>Poster:       David M Fahey <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: Miami University
>Subject:      heoretical Literature
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>I am interested in compiling a bibliography of scholarly works that examine
>the history of alcohol from a cross-disciplinary perspective.  What books
>and articles, for example,  incorporate theories from sociology or
>anthropology?
 
David
 
I highly recommend *Constructive drinking: Perspectives on drink from
anthropology*, edited by Mary Douglas (1987). It covers a range of times and
places: eighteenth century Poland, 1970s Zaire, 20th century Chiapas, even
Maigret's Paris.
 
Melissa
 
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