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. |
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... male elders . Public au- thority was in the hands of male family elders who made up the council of village elders . 13 A Balanta village generally consists of a number of patrilineal family compounds , moranças , which can consist of up ...
... male elders in precolonial Akan , Ga - Adangme and Ewe societies , who were the living representatives of the ancestors , the ritual use of palm wine — and later European liquor - in communication with the gods and ancestors reinforced ...
... male drinking groups , 31 , 35 , 171 , 216–217 , 268 , 275 , 278–79 , 286 ; male elders , 14 , 16 , 24 , 29 ; male identity , 6 ; masculinity , 6 , 171 , 223 , 281-82 , 287 Mengistu , Haile Mariam , 164 , 167 Migration . See Labor ...
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Changing Modalities of Alcohol Usage | 23 |
For Women and Children An Economic History | 55 |
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