Alcohology
Victor Mallet, 8 December 1988
Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology
edited by Mary Douglas.
Cambridge, 291 pp., £25, September 1987,0 521 33504 3 Show More
edited by Mary Douglas.
Cambridge, 291 pp., £25, September 1987,
For Prayer and Profit: The Ritual, Economic and Social Importance of Beer in Gwembe District, Zambia, 1950-1982
by Elizabeth Colson and Thayer Scudder.
Stanford, 147 pp., $32.50, August 1988,0 8047 1444 4 Show More
by Elizabeth Colson and Thayer Scudder.
Stanford, 147 pp., $32.50, August 1988,
“... and some of the older and more dependent labourers say they would not want it any other way. In black Africa and white Africa beer is used to buy submission or allegiance. It was not for nothing that the young Soweto rioters of 1976 attacked the government beer-halls: they felt their elders were being sapped of money and political anger. Anthropologists and ... ”