The King of Drinks
Schnapps Gin from Modernity to Tradition
by Dmitri Van Den Bersselaar
268 pages· 2007· ISBN 9789004160910
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Using a focus on the trajectory of commoditisation of gin in West Africa, this book investigates how imported goods acquire specific local meanings. It shows that local consumers, not foreign advertisers, produced the importance of schnapps gin for African ritual
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