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

by David McKnight

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.

Genres: Anthropology

254 pages, Paperback

First published May 23, 2002