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Title: FROM HUNTING TO DRINKING
THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON AN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY
By: David McKnight
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0415271509
ISBN 13: 9780415271509
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Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 23 May, 2002
Pages: 256
Description: David Mcknight assesses the effects that alcohol has had on a small aboriginal community. He explores why drinking has become the main social activity, leading to high levels of illness, suicide and homicide.
Synopsis: Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork this is a vital addition to the literature on alcohol use and problem drinking, social change and postcolonialism.From Hunting to Drinking reveals the social change witnessed over a period of 30 years by an anthropologist on Mornington Island, off the North Queensland Coast, Australia, most notably the devastating effects that alcohol has had on this community.
Illustrations: 2 black & white tables
Publication: UK
Imprint: Routledge
Returns: Returnable
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