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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

af Edward Slingerland

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A look at how alcohol and other intoxicants helped spark the rise of the first large-scale societies by enhancing creativity, alleviating stress and building trust among conflicting tribes to allow them to cooperate with each other. Drunk cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically-grounded explanation for our love of alcohol. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, history, cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology, social psychology, literature, and genetics, Slingerland shows that our taste for chemical intoxicants is not an evolutionary mistake, as we are so often told. In fact, intoxication helps solve a number of distinctively human challenges: enhancing creativity, alleviating stress, building trust, and pulling off the miracle of getting fiercely tribal primates to cooperate with strangers. Our desire to get drunk, along with the individual and social benefits provided by drunkenness, played a crucial role in sparking the rise of the first large-scale societies. We would not have civilization without intoxication. From marauding Vikings and bacchanalian orgies to sex-starved fruit flies, blind cave fish, and problem-solving crows, Drunk is packed with fascinating case studies and engaging science, as well as practical takeaways for individuals and communities. The result is a captivating and long overdue investigation into humanity's oldest indulgence--one that explains not only why we want to get drunk, but also how it might actually be good for us to tie one on now and then.… (mere)
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Excellent book on alcohol and its benefits and perils; and that most rare of academic books: a funny one! ( )
  arturovictoriano | Mar 14, 2024 |
This would be an excellent long-form magazine article, but is trapped in 300 pages of notes-heavy, dry prose. Slingerland's done the research. He knows his material. His editor did him a grave disservice by letting him write an academic tome. ( )
  mikeolson2000 | Dec 27, 2023 |
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  Moshepit20 | Oct 7, 2023 |
Mediocre in content and writing. Had high hopes for this and it did not deliver. ( )
  Whiskey3pa | Jan 1, 2022 |
Drunk is the most comprehensive volume on alcohol that I've yet seen. The author brings together various approaches to analyzing it that include neuroscience, anthropology, history, and public health. I liked the wide-range view on offer, as well as the occasional laugh-out-loud moments (particularly towards the beginning of the book). It did feel like it bogged down somewhat in the middle of the book, where there were long stretches devoted to analysis of human evolution and culture and no mention of alcohol. (It was in fact building towards that, but I must confess this section lost my interest.)
The author's love of alcohol is apparent, and was admittedly an aspect of the book that I enjoyed, but I'm sure it will leave the (tavern) door open to accusations of pro-alcohol bias.
With all that said, if you enjoy a drink or two and are interested in *why* most of us do, this is definitely worth taking a look at. Highly recommended for this audience. ( )
  caimanjosh | Nov 25, 2021 |
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A look at how alcohol and other intoxicants helped spark the rise of the first large-scale societies by enhancing creativity, alleviating stress and building trust among conflicting tribes to allow them to cooperate with each other. Drunk cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically-grounded explanation for our love of alcohol. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, history, cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology, social psychology, literature, and genetics, Slingerland shows that our taste for chemical intoxicants is not an evolutionary mistake, as we are so often told. In fact, intoxication helps solve a number of distinctively human challenges: enhancing creativity, alleviating stress, building trust, and pulling off the miracle of getting fiercely tribal primates to cooperate with strangers. Our desire to get drunk, along with the individual and social benefits provided by drunkenness, played a crucial role in sparking the rise of the first large-scale societies. We would not have civilization without intoxication. From marauding Vikings and bacchanalian orgies to sex-starved fruit flies, blind cave fish, and problem-solving crows, Drunk is packed with fascinating case studies and engaging science, as well as practical takeaways for individuals and communities. The result is a captivating and long overdue investigation into humanity's oldest indulgence--one that explains not only why we want to get drunk, but also how it might actually be good for us to tie one on now and then.

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