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Heath, Dwight Braley was born on November 19, 1930 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Percy Leonard and Luise (Hosp) Heath.
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The most wide-ranging collection of its kind, Heath's latest edition offers forty-seven articles on the peoples and institutions of Middle and South America. Based on original research by social scientists and chosen for their clarity and jargon-free writing, the Third Edition's contributions cover a diversity of themes and areas reflecting recent developments in both anthropology and Latin America. Topics include image and reality, the anthropological enterprise, traditional and modern cultures, identity and ethnicity, relations of power, and views of the world. Brief editorial introductions place each article in a broader context, and recommended readings offer excellent sources for pursuing topics in greater depth.
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Heath's collection is excellent in providing a handy source for a number of classic papers on the peoples and institutions of Middle and South America. Clear, jargonless writings based on original research by social scientists combine to cover a diversity of topics and areas. Each article stands by itself, but brief editorial introductions set each into a broader context, and lists of recommended readings make it easy for any reader to pursue topics in greater depth, or to find key sources on specific regions or countries.
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The first authoritative guide to how the world drinks, this reference details alcohol use in different countries and cultures. Variation is striking, with alcohol sometimes a food, a sacrament, a symbol, a tool, a tranquilizer, a medicine, a love potion, or an object of scorn―often with very different meanings and uses in a single country. This volume reveals multicultural and ethnic beliefs, practices, and attitudes about drinking around the world. An extensive introduction discusses the close link between alcohol and culture and provides a foundation for the rest of the book. Each of the following chapters is written by an expert contributor and discusses alcohol and culture in a particular country. Chapters discuss historical trends, drinking among ethnic and religious minorities, national policies, and social outcomes. Countries range from industrial nations known for their alcohol research, to developing nations and to places famous for drinking. A concluding chapter highlights important similarities and differences.
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The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety of drinking occasions that exist around the world, primarily in modern, industrialized countries. As such, it celebrates the diversity of normal drinking behavior and illustrates a wide range of beneficial drinking patterns. Attention is also paid to the relations between drink and culture that prevail in non-Western societies and in developing countries. The aims of the book are twofold: to deal directly with the challenge of how to define responsible drinking in the face of the world's many different drinking styles, and to portray the many ways in which people have thought about or used alcohol as an integral part of their culture
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Heath, Dwight Braley was born on November 19, 1930 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Percy Leonard and Luise (Hosp) Heath.
Bachelor of Arts in Social Relations, Harvard University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Yale University, 1959.
He has published extensively in many areas of anthropology, especially on the subject of alcohol drinking patterns and their relationship to culture. Heath earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale in 1959, as well as his undergraduate degree from Harvard. Heath has critiqued the viability of neo-prohibitionism as an effective approach to reducing alcohol abuse and consults on a diversity of issues with governments and scientific organizations around the world.
(The most wide-ranging collection of its kind, Heath's lat...)
(The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety ...)
(Heath's collection is excellent in providing a handy sour...)
( The first authoritative guide to how the world drinks, ...)
With Army of the United States, 1952-1954. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, American Society Ethnohistory, Royal Anthropological Institute, L.Am. Studies Association.
1 child, David Braley (deceased).