Liquid bread : beer and brewing in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Wulf Schiefenhövel and Helen Macbeth.

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Assembling perspectives on beer / Wulf Schiefenhövel and Helen Macbeth -- Natural ingestion of ethanol by animals : why? / W.C. McGrew -- Healthy or detrimental? Physiological, psychiatric and evolutionary aspects of drinking beer / Peter Kaiser, Gerhard Medicus and Martin Brüne -- Beer : how it's made : the basics of brewing / Keith Thomas -- Interdisciplinary investigations into the brewing technology of the Ancient Near East and the potential of the cold mashing process / Martin Zarnkow, Adelheid Otto and Berthold Einwag -- Beer in prehistoric Europe / Hans-Peter Stika -- Beer and beer culture in Germany / Franz Meusdoerffer -- Europe north and south, beer and wine : some reflections about beer and Mediterranean food / F. Xavier Medina -- Living in the streets : beer acceptance in Andalusia during the twentieth century / Isabel González Turmo -- Thirst for tradition : beer production and consumption in the United Kingdom / Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth -- Beer in the Czech Republic / Jana Parízková and Martina Vlkova -- Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in German and American fraternities : anthropological and social psychological aspects / Gerhard Dammann -- Rugby, racing and beer in New Zealand : colonising a consumer culture / Nancy J. Pollock -- Beer, ritual and conviviality in Northern Cameroon / Igor de Garine -- Gender of beer : beer symbolism among the Kapsiki/Higi and the Dogon / Walter van Beek -- Ritual use of beer in South-West Tanzania / Ruth Kutalek -- Brewing sorghum beer in Burkina Faso : a study in food technology from the perspective of anthropological linguistics / François Belliard -- Rice beer and social cohesion in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak / Monica Janowski -- Tradition and change : beer consumption in Northeast Luzon, Philippines / Dante M. Aquino and Gerard A. Persoon -- Culture, market and beer consumption / Mabel Gracia Arnaiz -- Beer and European media : global vs. local / Luis Cantarero and Monica Stacconi.