Potent Brews

A Social History of Alcohol in East Africa, 1850-1999

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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This is the first general history of alcohol and drinking in East Africa.Contributes to an emerging field of African social history in distinctive and innovative ways. Willis's central theme is power - from customary beliefs in alcohol as a symbol of authority and a means of enhancement and privilege,to the use of power in advertising and discourse on the consumption of modern bottled beers and spirits. It is Willis's contention that attitudes towards alcohol have become more similar across the region over time. Willis achieves a full chronological span of nearly two centuries. He lays considerable emphasis upon the late-colonial and post-colonial years; thus bringing out the continuities of these years which historians of eastern Africa have tended tooverlook. Oral material from three case study areas in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are integrally woven in with archival and newspaper sources, each reinforcing and elaborating the other.Published in association with The British Institute in Eastern AfricaNorth America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2002-09-01
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEastern African Studies
Antal sidor288
FörlagJames Currey
ISBN9780852554708

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Introduction - Ambiguous power - What are you drinking? - I DRINK, SEX & VIOLENCE: THE NATURE OF POWER IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EAST AFRICA Wild women & violent youths - Drinking authority - Chiefs & caravans II NATIVE LIQUOR, MONEY & THE COLONIAL STATE, c. 1900-60 Selling drink, 1900-60 - Native liquor & native authority, 1900-40 - Clubs & beerhalls, 1940-55 - Whisky in the club: 'intoxicating liquor', 1900-47 - III DRINK & DEVELOPMENT, c. 1950-90 'Beer is best': formal sector alcohol, 1947-90 - Traditional liquor & development, c. 1960-90 - 'Impure spirit': illicit distillation, health & power - IV DRINKING IN THE 1990s Beer wars & power drinks, 1990-9 - Crises of drinking & diversification - Appendices - Bibliography

This is a valuable work essential to anyone interested in the social history of East Africa. Willis presents a comprehensive survey of the social significance and effects of brewing, local alcohol consumption, and government policies toward alcohol in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. He presents a synthesis of most of the relevant available published and archival material related to alcohol along with information collected from interviews with African informants in one society in each of the three countries covered. ...This is an important and unconsidered field of research. Willis's excellent volume does much to rectify this neglect.