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Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery. Patrick A. McAllister. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2006. 355 pp.

Patrick McAllister's latest book draws on over twenty years of fieldwork in South Africa and brings together the fruits of a long publishing career on Xhosa ritual, oratory, and beer. Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery is a compilation of participant-observation ethnographies that convincingly demonstrates the social significance inherent in Xhosa beer drinking rituals. Through an analysis of the preparations and practices of beer drinks, with special attention to the content and pattern of speech and performance during the rituals, McAllister successfully presents Xhosa beer drinking rituals as an index of Xhosa speakers'...

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