Economy and Inebriation (and Mongolia)

[Michael Ash]

There was a recent exchange on the social causes of alcoholism that
mentioned the social cost of transition in Mongolia. There was a good
article that ran recently in American Ethnologist on exactly this topic.
Here is the citation:

Williams, DM.  Grazing the body: violations of land and limb in Inner
Mongolia.  AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, NOV, 1997, V24(N4):763-785.

Sincerely,

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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Marta Russell wrote:
> 
> >A while back there was a discussion about social causes of alcoholism.
> >Alec, I think you raised the question. There is an article in the LA
> >Times this morning, "Economy, Inebriation Linked in Mongolia"
> >(Associated Press), making a direct link between increased use of
> >alcohol in Mongolia and the transition from communism to capitalism.
> >It's terribly sad what is happening there, poverty and unemployment have
> >soared.
> >
> > I don't have a scanner or I would post it here.
> 
> It wasn't on the LAT site, but I nabbed it from Yahoo.
> 
> Doug
> 
> ----
> 
> Yahoo! News	AP Headlines
> Wednesday January 13 1:36 AM ET
> 
> Some Mongolians Turn To Liquor
> 
> By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press Writer
> ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AP) - It's 10:30 p.m., and Ulan Bator's drunks are
> howling. Out of their mind on cheap liquor, they rant and rattle the iron
> bars of a police cell. The stink of vodka and unwashed bodies hangs heavy
> in the air.

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