From Mead to Snakebite - An Ethnography of Modern British University Sports Team Drinking Culture and its Parallels with the Drinking Rituals of the Viking World

The idea for this paper came, as these things often do, in a bar. The interesting twist was that instead of being an inebriated patron, I was actually working behind the bar observing the scenes of intoxicated students with a bemused expression. What began as a joke shared with a colleague, comparin...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4e9a7f7c530748149c80bf3d2077201f2021-12-01T14:42:31ZFrom Mead to Snakebite - An Ethnography of Modern British University Sports Team Drinking Culture and its Parallels with the Drinking Rituals of the Viking World2212-8956https://doaj.org/article/4e9a7f7c530748149c80bf3d2077201f2014-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10148https://doaj.org/toc/2212-8956The idea for this paper came, as these things often do, in a bar. The interesting twist was that instead of being an inebriated patron, I was actually working behind the bar observing the scenes of intoxicated students with a bemused expression. What began as a joke shared with a colleague, comparing the sights of drunken debauchery with the images of rowdy Viking drinking depicted in the Old Norse sagas, eventually developed into a more serious consideration and long-term reflection of the observable similarities in drinking culture.Matt AustinEXARCarticlehistoryalcoholviking agenewest eraunited kingdomMuseums. Collectors and collectingAM1-501ArchaeologyCC1-960ENEXARC Journal, Iss 2014/1 (2014)
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language EN
topic history
alcohol
viking age
newest era
united kingdom
Museums. Collectors and collecting
AM1-501
Archaeology
CC1-960
spellingShingle history
alcohol
viking age
newest era
united kingdom
Museums. Collectors and collecting
AM1-501
Archaeology
CC1-960
Matt Austin
From Mead to Snakebite - An Ethnography of Modern British University Sports Team Drinking Culture and its Parallels with the Drinking Rituals of the Viking World
description The idea for this paper came, as these things often do, in a bar. The interesting twist was that instead of being an inebriated patron, I was actually working behind the bar observing the scenes of intoxicated students with a bemused expression. What began as a joke shared with a colleague, comparing the sights of drunken debauchery with the images of rowdy Viking drinking depicted in the Old Norse sagas, eventually developed into a more serious consideration and long-term reflection of the observable similarities in drinking culture.
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title From Mead to Snakebite - An Ethnography of Modern British University Sports Team Drinking Culture and its Parallels with the Drinking Rituals of the Viking World
title_short From Mead to Snakebite - An Ethnography of Modern British University Sports Team Drinking Culture and its Parallels with the Drinking Rituals of the Viking World
title_full From Mead to Snakebite - An Ethnography of Modern British University Sports Team Drinking Culture and its Parallels with the Drinking Rituals of the Viking World
title_fullStr From Mead to Snakebite - An Ethnography of Modern British University Sports Team Drinking Culture and its Parallels with the Drinking Rituals of the Viking World
title_full_unstemmed From Mead to Snakebite - An Ethnography of Modern British University Sports Team Drinking Culture and its Parallels with the Drinking Rituals of the Viking World
title_sort from mead to snakebite - an ethnography of modern british university sports team drinking culture and its parallels with the drinking rituals of the viking world
publisher EXARC
publishDate 2014
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