Кокосовая чарка, бамбуковый стакан. Этнография и этноботаника хмельной культуры Юго-Восточной Азии M.V. Stanyukovich. Coconut cup, bamboo cup. Ethnography and ethnobotany of alcohol in Southeast Asia (In Russian) (original) (raw)

2018, Станюкович М.В. (отв. ред), Касаткина А.К. Музейные коллекции и современная культура народов Индонезии, Малайзии, Филиппин, Океании. Сборник МАЭ. Т. LХV. С. 29-49.

The paper treats about alcohol production and consumption in traditional and modern cultures of Southeast Asia, with a focus on the Philippines and Cambodia, where the author conducts long-term fieldwork. Types of alcoholic drinks are classified by material (rice, palm- and sugarcane sap, honey), way of production (fermentation or distillation), level of survival, ritual importance and liability for the present-day life. Rice beer, popularly called ‘rice wine’ or ‘jar wine’, retains its status of the most ritually important alcoholic brew, even though the major part of Islam-professing Nusantara gives preferences to palm products. Following generally similar patterns, the ways of alcohol production and consumption show astounding variability. Although being spread wider in the past, e.g. by the Khmer of the Angkor period, nowadays rice wine brewed in jars is conceived as an identity symbol of the indigenous groups. The material culture of alcohol, as depicted in the objects collected since the end of the 19th c. till present, from the Kunstkamera stocks are discussed. The paper is richly illustrated with field photographs taken by the author.