From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community

by David McKnight

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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.

  • ISBN10 113448710X
  • ISBN13 9781134487103
  • Publish Date 2 September 2003 (first published 23 May 2002)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Routledge
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 256
  • Language English