Cultures of intoxication
By: edited by Phil Withington and Angela McShane
Series: Past and present supplements -- supplement 9, 2014; Past and present supplements -- new ser., v. 9.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780198715627
Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Social aspects; Drug abuse; Drinking customs; Cross-cultural studies; Droge; Kultur; Rausch; Rauschgift
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Cultures of intoxication  -- Phil Withington; title: Intoxication and sociality : the symposium in the ancient Greek world  -- Robin Osborne; title: 'Tuned out or tuned in' : spirituality and youth drug use in global times  -- Karen Joe-Laidler, -- Geoffrey Hunt, -- and -- Molly Moloney; title: Indians and drunkenness in Spanish America  -- Rebecca Earle; title: Alcohol in the Islamic Middle East : ambivalence and ambiguity  -- Rudi Matthee; title: Modernity, tradition, and intoxication : comparative lessons from South Africa and West Africa  -- Paul Nugent; title: Double vision : the ambivalent imagery of drunkenness in early modern Europe  -- Tom Nichols; title: Health, intoxication, and civil conversation in Renaissance England  -- Jennifer Richards; title: Psychedelic drugs and the problem of experience  -- Sarah Shortall; title: Target America : visual culture, neuroimaging, and the 'hijacked brain' theory of addiction  -- Timothy A. Hickman -- The; title: taste of opium : science, monopoly, and the Japanese colonization in Taiwan, 1895-1945  -- Hung Bin Hsu; title: Material culture and 'political drinking' in seventeenth-century England  -- Angela McShane; title: Wine, corruption, and the politics of intoxication in eighteenth-century Stockholm -- Karin Sennefelt.