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States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation: The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization

Autor John O'Brien
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 iun 2018
This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to examine our ambivalent attitudes to alcohol in the modern West. From anthropological research on non-Western, non-modern cultures, the author demonstrates that the use of alcohol or other psychoactive substances is a universal across human societies, and indeed, has tended to be seen as unproblematic, or even a sacred aspect of culture, often used in a highly ritualised context. From historical sociology, it is shown that alcohol has also been central to the process of state formation, not only as a crucial source of revenue, but also through having an important role in the formation of political communities, which frequently are a source of existential fear for ruling groups. Tracing this contradictory position occupied by alcohol over the course of history and civilisation, States of Intoxication sheds light on the manner in which it has produced the very peculiar modern perspective on alcohol.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138093607
ISBN-10: 1138093602
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Evolutionary Origins Of Control
2. The Social Origins Of Control
3. Alcohol And The Ritual Process: Identity
4. Alcohols And The Ritual Process: Decontrolling
5. The Limits Of Ritual
6. Proto States And Potlatches
7. Subversive States: The Case Of Russia
8. States, Revenue And Interdependence
9. The Politics Of Centralisation: Consumption And Taxation*
10. Peace, Violence And Trauma
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Notă biografică

John O’Brien is a Lecturer in Sociology at Waterford Institute of Technology.

Descriere

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to examine our ambivalent attitudes to alcohol in the modern West. Tracing the contradictory position occupied by alcohol over the course of history and civilisation – as an unproblematic and even sacred element of ritual, as a source of revenue, as central to the formation of political communities, and a source of fear for ruling groups – States of Intoxication sheds light on the manner in which we have arrived at the very peculiar modern perspective on alcohol.