Xhosa beer drinking rituals
Subtitle: power, practice, and performance in the South African rural periphery
By: by Patrick A. McAllister.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Alcohol use; Xhosa (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies; Beer -- Social aspects -- South Africa; Drinking customs -- South Africa; South Africa -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beer, colonialism, and social change in southern Africa; title: Power, practice, and performance : a theoretical orientation; title: Characteristics of the rural field; title: Ritual beer drinking, other drinks and other rituals; title: Going to war : rituals of labour migration; title: Snakes, blood, money, and migration; title: Brewing, beer talk, preparations, and preliminaries; title: Space and the social order; title: Beer distribution and consumption; title: Modification and improvisation; title: Speech, practice and performance; title: Beer drink oratory and social reproduction; title: Power and gender; title: Conclusion.