For a pluridisciplinary approach to drinking / Igor de Garine -- Thirst and drinking as a biocultural process / Luis Alberto Vargas -- Water and drinking in an ecological context among Australian Aboriginal people practising traditional subsistence methods / Stanley J. Uliajaszek -- Nor any drop to drink : everyday drinking habits in pacific and New Zealand societies / Nancy J. Pollock -- Drinking in Northern Cameroon among the Masa and Muzey / Igor de Garine -- Milk consumption in African pastoral peoples / Michael A. Little, Sandra J. Gray and Benjamin C. Campbell -- The drinking ritual among the Maasai / Fouad N. Ibrahim -- Changing perceptions on milk as a drink in Western Europe : the case of the Netherlands / Adel P. den Hartog -- Milk in the mountains / Helen M. Macbeth -- Wine and health : the protective role of moderate consumption / A. M. Troncoso, M. C. Garcia Parrilla and M. V. Martinez Ortega -- Drinking : an almost silent language / Isabel González Turmo -- Gender and drink in Aragon, Spain. Tapeo : an identity model of public drink and food consumption in Spain / Luis Cantarero Abad -- Cantinas and drinkers in Mexico / Ricardo Avila Palafox -- Tamadoba : drinking social cohesion at the Georgian table / Mary Ellen Chatwin -- An ethnographic account of the many roles of millet beer in the culture of the Duupa agriculturalists, (Poli mountains) Northern Cameroon / Eric Garine -- Socio-economic and cultural implications of alcoholic beverages among the Abagusii of Western Kenya / Wilfred K. Subbo -- Alcohol, slavery, and African cultural continuity in the British Caribbean / Frederick H. Smith -- Drinking in La Réunion : between living, dying and forgetting / Annie Hubert -- When is an alcohol-containing substance something else? Southeast Asian definitions / Christine S. Wilson.