An edition of Breaking the ashes: the culture of illicit liquor in Sri Lanka (2008)

Breaking the ashes

the culture of illicit liquor in Sri Lanka

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the culture of illicit liquor in Sri Lanka

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Cornell University Press
Language
English
Pages
266

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Subjects

Social life and customs, Drinking customs, Alcoholism, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Sri lanka, social life and customs

Places

Sri Lanka, Naeaegama, Naeaegama (Sri Lanka)
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2008, Cornell University Press
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Table of Contents

Context : religious, historical, and political frameworks
Without one's right mind : agency, intoxication, and addiction
We don't say no : drinking and identity
Jolly drinking : events and taverns
Home wars : gendered consumption struggles
Kasippu : the political economics of illicit liquor
Over the red line : social rules for drunken comportment
Too much is good for nothing : alcohol dependence
A goddess of wrath : treatments.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Ithaca

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.292095493
Library of Congress
HV5585.8 G36 2008, HV5585.8G36 2008, HV5585.8 .G36 2008

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p. cm.
Number of pages
266

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OL16865123M
ISBN 13
9780801446603, 9780801474323
LCCN
2008020474
OCLC/WorldCat
228300768
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6433100

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