Beer in Africa: Drinking Spaces, States and Selves

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Steven van Wolputte, Mattia Fumanti
Lit, 2010 - Africa - 315 pages
This volume on beer in Africa focuses on the making and unmaking of self in the inchoate, dark, exalted and sometimes upsetting context of bars, shebeens and other formal and informal drinking occasions. Beer in Africa takes the production and consumption of fermented drinks as its point of entry to investigate how local actors deal with the ambivalent and the hazy, and how this ambiguity stands as the sine qua non of social life and daily practice.

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Contents

Michael Power and Guinness Masculinity in Africa
29
Ubuntu and the Morality of Xhosa Beer Drinking
53
Beers and Bullets Beads and Bulls Drink and the Making
79
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About the author (2010)

Steven Van Wolputte is a faculty member at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa at Leuven University, Belgium. Mattia Fumanti is a lecturer for the department for social anthropology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

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