Liquid bread: beer and brewing in cross-cultural perspective

Assembling perspectives on beer / Wulf Schiefenhövel and Helen Macbeth

Natural ingestion of ethanol by animals : why? / W.C. McGrew

Healthy or detrimental? Physiological, psychiatric and evolutionary aspects of drinking beer / Peter Kaiser, Gerhard Medicus and Martin Brüne

Beer : how it's made : the basics of brewing / Keith Thomas

Interdisciplinary investigations into the brewing technology of the Ancient Near East and the potential of the cold mashing process / Martin Zarnkow, Adelheid Otto and Berthold Einwag

Beer in prehistoric Europe / Hans-Peter Stika

Beer and beer culture in Germany / Franz Meusdoerffer

Europe north and south, beer and wine : some reflections about beer and Mediterranean food / F. Xavier Medina

Living in the streets : beer acceptance in Andalusia during the twentieth century / Isabel González Turmo

Thirst for tradition : beer production and consumption in the United Kingdom / Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth

Beer in the Czech Republic / Jana Parízková and Martina Vlkova

Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in German and American fraternities : anthropological and social psychological aspects / Gerhard Dammann

Rugby, racing and beer in New Zealand : colonising a consumer culture / Nancy J. Pollock

Beer, ritual and conviviality in Northern Cameroon / Igor de Garine

Gender of beer : beer symbolism among the Kapsiki/Higi and the Dogon / Walter van Beek

Ritual use of beer in South-West Tanzania / Ruth Kutalek

Brewing sorghum beer in Burkina Faso : a study in food technology from the perspective of anthropological linguistics / François Belliard

Rice beer and social cohesion in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak / Monica Janowski

Tradition and change : beer consumption in Northeast Luzon, Philippines / Dante M. Aquino and Gerard A. Persoon

Culture, market and beer consumption / Mabel Gracia Arnaiz

Beer and European media : global vs. local / Luis Cantarero and Monica Stacconi.