Quarreling representations: alcohol consumption within judicial, police and advertising discourses. Santa Fe, Argentina, 1860-1890 by Sedran, Paula

“…This paper analyzes the ways in which the representations about drinking and drunkenness are presented and transformed in police, judicial, journalistic and advertising documents, considering three variables: the stability of the  definition of popular consumption of alcohol as a vice; the variation of the uses that different subjects gave to drunkenness in their speeches; and how these uses and meaning interacted with the expansion of public consumption of alcohol for the middle and wealthy classes towards the end of the century.…”
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