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Alcohol in Hebridean culture: 16th–20th century
Author(s) -
DEAN ALAN
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1995.90227713.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , alcohol consumption , consumption (sociology) , order (exchange) , social environment , epoch (astronomy) , social order , history , sociology , geography , alcohol , political science , social science , archaeology , law , business , politics , biochemistry , chemistry , stars , physics , finance , astronomy
This paper sets out to document certain cultural antecedents to alcohol use in a British community. In order to demonstrate the extent to which patterns of alcohol consumption arise within broader social and cultural contexts, drinking practices on the Western Isles of Scotland are examined in light of specific social, economic and religious changes which have taken place between the 16th and 20th centuries. This paper thus seeks to argue that drinking practices are historical in that they arise within the context of the social and material conditions of a given epoch.