neděle 2. ledna 2011

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Tohle vypadá na zajímavý článek - “Women or Wine? Monogamy and Alcohol” (Mara Squicciarini a Jo Swinnen):
"Intriguingly, across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol. We investigate whether there is a correlation between alcohol consumption and polygynous/monogamous arrangements, both over time and across cultures. Historically, we find a correlation between the shift from polygyny to monogamy and the growth of alcohol consumption. Cross-culturally we also find that monogamous societies consume more alcohol than polygynous societies in the preindustrial world. We provide a series of possible explanations to explain the positive correlation between monogamy and alcohol consumption over time and across societies."
(z abstraktu - skrze Freakonomics).

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Pro doplnění. Co se týká "zákazu" konzumace alkoholu v islámském světě, tak nyní vyšla kniha, která se touto tématikou zaobírá: http://www.lidovky.cz/muslimove-se-svymi-dejinami-prochlastali-tvrdi-arabista-mendel-pwm-/ln_zahranici.asp?c=A101206_185119_ln_zahranici_pks .