Oxford University Press Alcohol & Humans, A Long & Social Affair Hardcover Book

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Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. The prevailing tendency to view alcohol merely as a social problem or the popular notion that alcohol only serves to provide us with a hedonic high, masks its importance in the social fabric of many human societies both past and present. To understand alcohol use, as a complex social practice that has been exploited by humans for thousands of years, requires crossdisciplinary insight from social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, psychologists, primatologists, and biologists. This multidisciplinary volume examines the broad use of alcohol in the human lineage and its wider relationship to social contexts such as feasting, sacred rituals, and social bonding. Alcohol abuse is a small part of a much more complex and social pattern of widespread alcohol use by humans. This alone should prompt us to explore the evolutionary origins of this ancient practice and the socially functional reasons for its continued popularity. The objectives of this volume are (1) to understand how and why nonhuman primates and other animals use alcohol in the wild, and its relevance to understanding the social consumption of alcohol in humans (2) to understand the social function of alcohol in human prehistory (3) to understand the sociocultural significance of alcohol across human societies and (4) to explore the social functions of alcohol consumption in contemporary society. Alcohol in Humans will be fascinating reading for those... | Oxford University Press Alcohol & Humans: A Long & Social Affair Hardcover Book