Alcohol in Africa: Mixing Business, Pleasure, and PoliticsDeborah Fahy Bryceson ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2002 - 305 sider Alcohol in Sub-Saharan Africa has historically been a conduit for religious and political expression controlled by male elders. Over the past century and especially during the last two crisis-ridden decades, alcohol's ceremonial role has been largely displaced. Rapid income differentiation and economic marginalization have spurred production and consumption of alcohol. In many localities, expanding supply has led to drinking patterns that impinge on general social welfare. These circumstances coincide with the continent-wide implementation of structural adjustment and economic liberalization policies. One might ask, have those policies driven people to drink? Currently, alcohol is a taboo subject for donors and African governments alike, yet it is at the nexus of many of the continent's most pressing problems. Agricultural sector decline, large-scale labor redundancy, household instability, and AIDS have cause or effect linkages to changing alcohol usage. This edited collection explores the economic, political, and social meanings of alcohol usage. The material is contextualized within a review of existing anthropological, social history, and social welfare literature on alcohol, and a broad historical overview of the continental trends in alcohol production and consumption. Both the pleasure and the pain of alcohol usage emerge, providing insight into the ambiguity of alcohol in Africa today. |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-3 av 15
... funerals and widowhood ( McAllister 1986 ; Anigbo 1990 ) , and friendship pacts ( Herlehy 1984 ) , but their use at special events is usually quantitatively surpassed by everyday usage . Drinking serves as a ubiquitous leisure ac ...
... funerals and dueling places , and also at collective gatherings such as the meeting of the Surma Council , katikala is becoming more common , and according to both Suri and other informants leads to heated verbal ex- changes and even ...
... funerals . Alcohol played and still plays a significant sym- bolic role in the libation ritual ( nsembe ) whereby ... funeral are directly located within the family and its muzimu . INDEPENDENT CHURCHES AND DEMON ALCOHOL Around the turn ...
Innhold
Changing Modalities of Alcohol Usage | 23 |
For Women and Children An Economic History | 55 |
Liquid Gold of a Lost Kingdom The Rise of Waragi | 75 |
Opphavsrett | |
12 andre deler vises ikke
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Referanser til denne boken
Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and ... Stephen D. Glazier,Charles A. Flowerday Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2003 |