Time and Alcohol by Peter J. Howland - 9781032632957

Time and AlcoholIts Five OClock Somewhere!\nAuthor(s): Peter J. Howland\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032632957, 978-1032632957\nSynopsis\nThe purposeful production, exchange, and consumption of alcohol, like all human endeavour, is always a matter of time and temporality and ranges from the universality of Einsteinian space-time relativity through to species-specific nature times and the myriad of anthropocentric constructs of nature time and of social times/temporalities. Thus time and temporality is an integral variable in all alcohol production, exchange, and consumption, and is complemented by similarly rendered considerations of space/place, context, and contingent social relationships.\n\nThe book draws on historical and ethnographic examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, China, France, India, Peru, Central Europe, and the United Kingdom to enhance our understandings of the dialogic matrices of time and t.