Alcohol and Humans: A Long and Social Affair

ISBN-13: 9780198842460 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

Kimberley Hockings; Robin Dunbar

Recenzje

The 13 essays in this edited volume make important contributions to understanding the biological, technical, and social dimensions of alcohol production and consumption in various cultural settings ranging from Neolithic Mesopotamia to modern Bolivia and Guyana. This collection represents the latest work of anthropological scholarship on alcohol, and leading experts in the field of alcohol studies are among the contributors.

O autorze

Kimberley Hockings is a lecturer in Conservation Science at the Centre of Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter. Her research examines the ways in which human and nonhuman great apes coexist in shared landscapes, including in their overlapping use of resources such as fermented beverages. From this she has developed an interest in the evolutionary origins of ethanol consumption in humans. To effectively understand human and wildlife components of interactions her research increasingly combines biological, ecological, and social science approaches. She conducts fieldwork in Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, west Africa, and is a member of the Great Ape Section of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group. Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998. His principal research interests focus on the evolution of sociality (with particular reference to primates and humans). He is best known for the social brain hypothesis, the gossip theory of language evolution and Dunbar's Number (the limit on the number of relationships that we can manage). He has published 30 books and edited volumes and over 300 journal articles.