Drunken comportment : a social explanation
From the Foreword to the Percheron Press Edition: '[O]ne of only a few books that can truly be said to have had a major impact on our understanding of alcohol use and its outcomes.'
Print Book, English, ©2003
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Percheron Press, Clinton Corners, N.Y., ©2003
Cross-cultural studies
xii, 197 s. ; 21 cm.
9780971958760, 0971958769
476047882
Foreword to the Percheron Press Edition, Dwight B. Heath 1. The Conventional Wisdom 2. “Some People Can Really Hold Their Liquor” 3. “Now-You-See-It-Now-You-Don’t”: The Sway of Time and Circumstances over Drunken Comportment 4. Disinhibition and the Within-Limits Clause: The Problem of Drunken Changes-for-the-Worse 5. Drunkenness as Time Out: An Alternative Solution 6. “Indians Can’t Hold Their Liquor” A: The Conventional Wisdom and the Puzzles 7. “Indians Can’t Hold Their Liquor” B: Our Formulation Applied 8. Some Concluding Remarks References Index
Originally published: Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., [1969]