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Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published online on March 30, 2009
Alcohol and Alcoholism, doi:10.1093/alcalc/agp018
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Book Review

Breaking the Ashes. The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka. By Michele Ruth Gamburd

; Breaking the Ashes. The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka. By Michele Ruth Gamburd. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2008, £11.50. 266 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7432-3

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In Sri Lanka, ‘breaking the ashes’—rekindling the kitchen fire—is used to describe the need for a drink first thing in the morning by people who have an alcohol problem. The author, Michele Ruth Gamburd, is an American anthropologist who has worked in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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