Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, C. 1800 to Recent TimesThis analysis of the social history of alcohol in Ghana since the early 19th century blends the approaches of history, anthropology, social medicine, theology and political science. Sources used include proverbs, music, comic opera, popular literature, photographs, and colonial archives. |
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... Work , Culture , and Identity : Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa , c . 1860-1910 PATRICK HARRIES Cutting Down Trees : Gender , Nutrition and Agricultural Change in the Northern Prov- ince of Zambia , 1890–1990 HENRIETTA ...
... Work , Culture , and Identity : Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa , c . 1860-1910 PATRICK HARRIES Cutting Down Trees : Gender , Nutrition and Agricultural Change in the Northern Prov- ince of Zambia , 1890–1990 HENRIETTA ...
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... Work , Culture , and Identity : Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa , c.1860-1910 ( Portsmouth , 1994 ) . 61 Intoxicants were also closely associated with strenuous trades in nineteenth - century Britain and America . See ...
... Work , Culture , and Identity : Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa , c.1860-1910 ( Portsmouth , 1994 ) . 61 Intoxicants were also closely associated with strenuous trades in nineteenth - century Britain and America . See ...
Contents
Alcohol Autonomy and Power in Ghana | 1 |
Alcohol Ritual and Power among the Akan GaAdangme | 21 |
Urban Migrants Social Drinking and the Struggle | 47 |
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