Breaking the ashes
Subtitle: the culture of illicit liquor in Sri Lanka
By: Michele Ruth Gamburd.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780801446603; 9780801474323
Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Sri Lanka -- Naeaegama; Alcoholism -- Sri Lanka -- Naeaegama; Drinking customs -- Sri Lanka -- Naeaegama; Naeaegama (Sri Lanka) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Context : religious, historical, and political frameworks; title: Without one's right mind : agency, intoxication, and addiction; title: We don't say no : drinking and identity; title: Jolly drinking : events and taverns; title: Home wars : gendered consumption struggles; title: Kasippu : the political economics of illicit liquor; title: Over the red line : social rules for drunken comportment; title: Too much is good for nothing : alcohol dependence; title: A goddess of wrath : treatments.