Intoxicated Identities

Alcohol's Power in Mexican History and Culture

Tim Mitchell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2004
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-94813-5 (ISBN)

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In Intoxicated Identities, Tim Mitchell provides a novel and well-grounded framework for understanding subjective drinking experiences from the Aztecs to the present day in areas as diverse as Chiapas, Chihuahua, Oaxaca, Mexico City, Texas and California. Power drinking plays a crucial role in Mexican religion, politics, fine arts and ritual spousal abuse. Mexico ranks number one in deaths from cirrhosis, and Mexican Americans are twice as likely to be arrested for drunken driving as blacks or whites. With methods and concepts derived from an extraordinary range of disciplines, Mitchell explains how Mexican culture reinforces heavy drinking. He analyzes supply (nationalistic marketing strategies) but emphasizes demand (psychocultural motivations unique to Mexico). He chronicles the joys and sorrows of a borrachera, or drinking binge, and explores this altered state of consciousness on its own terms, not from any temperance or anti-alcohol perspective.

Tim Mitchell is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University.

1. Time-Warping in Tenochtitlán2. Anthropologists and Alcoholics3. After 15 or 20 Drinks4. Bodies and Memories5. Allá en el Rancho Grande6. Death-Wish Aesthetics7. Spousal Assault Rituals, Then and Now8. The Pedro Infante Generation9. Thirsty Urban NomadsBibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.5.2004
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	317 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-415-94813-4 / 0415948134
ISBN-13	978-0-415-94813-5 / 9780415948135
Zustand	Neuware