@article{ref1,
title="Cross-cultural studies of alcohol use",
journal="Recent developments in alcoholism",
year="1984",
author="Heath, D. B.",
volume="2",
number="",
pages="405-415",
abstract="A major contribution of anthropology to alcohol studies is the description and analysis of the range of variation in drinking and its outcomes among diverse populations. Various kinds of cross-cultural comparisons are helpful for understanding the relationships among variables and for testing hypotheses about how alcohol use relates to other aspects of culture. Transcultural studies, small-scale comparisons of a few cultures, are reviewed. Also summarized are those hologeistic studies--in which associations between specific traits are statistically evaluated for a large worldwide sample of cultures--that have yielded theoretically significant models emphasizing anxiety, social structure, dependency, and power as basic motivations for drinking or drunkenness or both.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0738-422X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}