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DRUNKEN COMPORTMENT

A Social Explanation

CRAIG MacANDREW
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

and

ROBERT B. EDGERTON
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

With a New Foreword by
DWIGHT B. HEATH
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

From the Foreword to the Percheron Press Edition . . .
“[O]ne of only a few books that can truly be said to have had a major impact on our understanding of alcohol use and its outcomes.”

From the reviews . . .

“[P]robably the most original contribution ever to come from anthropological research on alcohol.”
John J. Honigmann in Social Forces

“[A] happy blending of good psychology and anthropology.”
Nancy Oestreich Lurie in American Anthropologist

“[A]rguably the best-recognized conceptual contribution from the ethnographic literature to alcohol studies in general.”
Robin Room in Social Science and Medicine

A volume in the series Foundations of Anthropology

ISBN 978-0-9719587-6-0/paperback/214 pp./illus./November 2003/$32.50