there's some work on this topic included in Society, Culture, and
Drinking Patterns Reexamined, edited by David Pittman and Helene Raskin
White.
Joan McCord

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> The article about alcohol, Sweden, and the European Union from the
> NYTimes
> that was posted on this list the other day quoted Dr. Gunar Agren, of
> Sweden's National Institute of Health.  He noted that in Sweden,
> unlike
> Italy, the tradition was that people drank and beat each other up, in
> other
> words, as I understand it, that the behavior of drunks was culturally
> determined.
>
> And so my question:  are there good recent works that discuss that
> connection
> among culture, drunkenness, and the behavior which follows?  I'd be
> interested in works that compare the people of different countries or
> those
> which concentrate on people from different sections or different
> groups in
> America.
>
> Jerome Nadelhaft