Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions. It looks at the way the materiality of a specific drink (coffee, wine, water, beer) serves as the semiotic medium for a genre of sociability in a specific time and place.
As an explicitly comparative semiotic study, the book uses familiar and unfamiliar case studies to show how drinks with similar material properties are semiotically organized into very different drinking practices, including...
Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modu...
Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions. It looks at the way the materiality of a specific drink (coffee, wine, water, beer) serves as the semiotic medium for a genre of sociability in a specific time and place.
As an explicitly comparative semiotic study, the book uses familiar and unfamiliar case studies to show how drinks with similar material properties are semiotically organized into very different drinking practices, including...
Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modu...
Focuses upon drug consumption as popular culture. In drawing upon criminological, sociological and cultural studies approaches, this book makes an important contribution to the field positioned at the intersection of these disciplines. It aims to provide a collection of chapters and readings that is relevant to undergraduates and postgraduates.
Focuses upon drug consumption as popular culture. In drawing upon criminological, sociological and cultural studies approaches, this book makes an imp...
This book examines the history of popular drug cultures and mediated drug education, and the ways in which new media - including social networking and video file-sharing sites - transform the symbolic framework in which drugs and drug culture are represented. Tracing the emergence of formal drug regulation in both the US and the United Kingdom from the late nineteenth century, it argues that mass communication technologies were intimately connected to these "control regimes" from the very beginning. Manning includes original archive research revealing official fears about the use of such mass...
This book examines the history of popular drug cultures and mediated drug education, and the ways in which new media - including social networking and...
