Alcohol in Latin America
Subtitle: a social and cultural history
By: edited by Gretchen Pierce and Áurea Toxqui
Publisher: the University of Arizona Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780816530762
Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages; History; Alcoholic beverages; Alcoholic beverage industry; Alcoholism; Temperance
Description: "Alcohol in Latin America is the first interdisciplinary study to examine the historic role of alcohol across Latin America and over a broad time span. Six locations--the Andean region, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico--are seen through the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, history, and literature"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-295) and index.