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The American Experience with Alcohol

Contrasting Cultural Perspectives

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Linda A. Bennett

    1. Center for Family Research, George Washington University Medical Center, USA

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  2. Genevieve M. Ames

    1. Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Berkeley, USA

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Theoretical and Historical Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Alcohol Belief Systems in a Culturally Pluralistic Society

      • Linda A. Bennett, Genevieve M. Ames
      Pages 3-6

    3. Alcoholism

      • Noel J. Chrisman
      Pages 7-21

    4. American Beliefs about Alcoholism

      • Genevieve M. Ames
      Pages 23-39

    5. Getting on the Program

      • Miriam B. Rodin
      Pages 41-58

  3. Case Studies: Americans of European Heritage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Acculturated Italian-American Drinking Behavior

      • Ben James Simboli
      Pages 61-76

    3. Polish-American Drinking

      • Paul J. Freund
      Pages 77-92

    4. Jewish-Americans and Alcohol

      • Barry Glassner, Bruce Berg
      Pages 93-107

    5. Historical Meanings of Irish-American Drinking

      • Richard Stivers
      Pages 109-129

    6. Appalachia

      • Grace Toney Edwards
      Pages 131-146

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Ambiguity in Black Drinking Norms

      • Denise Herd
      Pages 149-170

    3. Alcohol

      • Atwood D. Gaines
      Pages 171-197

  5. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Indians, Ethnicity, and Alcohol

      • Joan Weibel-Orlando
      Pages 201-226

    3. Navajo “Alcoholism”

      • Martin D. Topper
      Pages 227-251

  6. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
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    2. Mexican-Americans in California

      • M. Jean Gilbert
      Pages 255-277
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About this book

This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of culture and alcohol in the United States. Its appearance is also a milestone in the history of alcohol studies in American anthropology. Over the last six years, the volume's editors, initially along with Miriam Rodin, have served as the coorganizers of the Alcohol and Drug Study Group of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). In this capacity, they have organized sessions at the AAA and other meetings, greatly strengthened the research network with a regular and informative newsletter, and painstakingly promoted the publication of anthropological work on al­ cohol and drugs. Appearing just as the responsibility for the Study Group is passed on to others, this book is a fitting emblem of the care and energy with which its editors have built an institutional nexus for alcohol and drug anthropology in North America. The contents of this volume offer a uniquely wide sampling of the diversity of cultural patterns that make up the American experience with alcohol. The collective portrait the editors have assembled extends in several dimensions: through time and history, across such social differ­ entiations as gender, age-grade, and social class, and through such major social institutions as the church and the family. Clearly the dominant dimension of variation in the material that follows, however, is ethnicity. The book offers us a sampler of unprecedented richness of the different experiences with alcohol of American ethnoreligious groups.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Family Research, George Washington University Medical Center, USA

    Linda A. Bennett

  • Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Berkeley, USA

    Genevieve M. Ames

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The American Experience with Alcohol

  • Book Subtitle: Contrasting Cultural Perspectives

  • Editors: Linda A. Bennett, Genevieve M. Ames

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0530-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41945-4Published: 31 July 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0532-1Published: 26 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0530-7Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 490

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Psychology, general, Archaeology

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