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Home-Brewed Alcohol, Gender, and Violence in the West Papuan Highlands

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Title: Home-Brewed Alcohol, Gender, and Violence in the West Papuan Highlands
Author(s): Munro, Jenny
Date published: 2014
Publisher: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Series/Report no.: In Brief (The Australian National University, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Program): 2014/14
Description: 
Alcohol is officially banned in the West Papuan highlands, but home-brewed alcohol (minuman lokal in Indonesian, literally, 'local drink') is inexpensive, widely available, and transforming interpersonal, political, and gendered violence in the area. Scholarship on alcohol in the Pacific views consumption as a mode of male social differentiation related to racialised power and status, owing to the gendered, colonial history of alcohol consumption (Marshall 1982), as well as the 'prestige economy' of burgeoning resource sectors (Macintyre and Bainton 2013). In contrast to beer and other forms of alcohol, home-brew has received less attention.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/143161
ISSN: 2205-7404

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