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Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes - 9780813033068

Un libro in lingua di Jennings Justin (EDT) Bowser Brenda J. (EDT) edito da Univ Pr of Florida, 2009

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Just like other aspects of culture, drinking alcohol reflects and can play a role in changing the social, economic, and political structures of societies. In this volume, Jennings (anthropology, U. of Toronto, Canada) and Bowser (anthropology, California State U., US) present nine chapters in which scholars use ethnographic, historical, and archaeological approaches to study the role of alcohol in Andean societies over the past 1500 years. Topics include ritual drinking as a structural metaphor in a small Peruvian community since 1955; the ability of women to gain social and economic independence through brewing chicha in rural Bolivia; the role of drinking in the Inca political economy; chicha de molle as indicator of social rank and ethnicity among the Wari (AD 500-1000), and chicha as an expression of the tension between inequality and shared identity in the contemporary Ecuadarian Amazon and in the Moche culture of Peru's north coast (AD 100-700). Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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