Gender, drink, and drugs

Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain? Using ideas from social anthropology, this book attempts to provide a novel answer to these questions. The introduction surveys both gender and addiction. It points out that we cannot say what men or women are really like, in any culturally innocent sense, for gender is always, even in the realm of biology, a cultural matter. The ethnographic chapters, ranging from Ancient Rome to modern Japan, similarly suggest how any substance--from alcohol to tea to heroin--inevitably takes its meaning or reality in the cultural system in which it exists.

שנה

2020

שפה

English

הוצאה

Taylor & Francis Group

מהדורות

4

ISBN

9781000324938

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