AFA copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
Contents:
Introduction -- Beer, colonialism, and social change in southern Africa -- Power, practice, and performance : a theoretical orientation -- Characteristics of the rural field -- Ritual beer drinking, other drinks and other rituals -- Going to war : rituals of labour migration -- Snakes, blood, money, and migration -- Brewing, beer talk, preparations, and preliminaries -- Space and the social order -- Beer distribution and consumption -- Modification and improvisation -- Speech, practice and performance -- Beer drink oratory and social reproduction -- Power and gender -- Conclusion
