Helen Macbeth is President of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF) and is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Anthropology Department, Oxford Brookes University. Among other books she has edited or coedited are three volumes in this series, Food Preferences and Taste: Continuity and Change, Researching Food Habits: Methods and Problems and Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice.

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Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction
Helen Macbeth and Wulf Schiefenhövel

Chapter 1. Natural Ingestion of Ethanol by Animals: Why?
W.C.McGrew

Chapter 2. Healthy or Detrimental? Physiological, Psychiatric and Evolutionary Aspects of Drinking Beer
Peter Kaiser, Gerhard Medicus and Martin Brüne

Chapter 3. Beer: How it's made - the Basics of Brewing
Keith Thomas

Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary Investigations into the Brewing Technology of the Ancient Near East and the Potential of the Cold Mashing Process
Martin Zarnkow, Adelheid Otto and Berthold Einwag

Chapter 5. Beer in Prehistoric Europe
Hans-Peter Stika

Chapter 6. Beer and Beer Culture in Germany
Franz Meussdoerffer

Chapter 7. Europe North and South, Beer and Wine: Some Reflections about Beer and Mediterranean Food
F. Xavier Medina

Chapter 8. Living in the Streets: Beer Acceptance in Andalusia during the Twentieth Century
Isabel González Turmo

Chapter 9. The Thirst for Tradition: Beer Production and Consumption in the United Kingdom
Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth

Chapter 10. Beer in the Czech Republic
Jana Parízková and Martina Vlkova

Chapter 11. Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking in German Fraternities: Anthropological and Social Psychological Aspects
Gerard Dammann

Chapter 12. Rugby, Racing and Beer in New Zealand: Colonising a Consuming Culture
Nancy J. Pollock

Chapter 13. Beer, Ritual and Conviviality in Northern Cameroon
Igor de Garine

Chapter 14. The Gender of Beer: Beer Symbolism among the Kapsiki/Higi and the Dogon
Walter van Beek

Chapter 15. Ritual Use of Beer in South West Tanzania
Ruth Kutalek

Chapter 16. Brewing Sorghum Beer in Burkina Faso: a Study in Food Technology from the Perspective of Anthropological Linguistics
François Belliard

Chapter 17. Rice Beer and Social Cohesion in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak
Monica Janowski

Chapter 18. Tradition and Change: Beer Consumption in Northeast Luzon, Philippines
Dante Aquino and Gerard Persoon

Chapter 19. Culture, Market and Beer Consumption
Mabel Gracia Arnaiz

Chapter 20. Beer and European Media: Global vs. Local
Luis Cantarero and Monica Stacconi

Glossary

Index