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Article: Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery.(Book review)
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- African Studies Quarterly
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- September 22, 2008
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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 ...