NES 2522 - Drinking through the Ages: Intoxicating Beverages in Near Eastern and World History

(crosslisted) ARKEO 2522, CLASS 2630, JWST 2522
(GHB) (CA-AS)

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

C. Monroe.

This course examines the production and exchange of wine, beer, coffee and tea, and the social and ideological dynamics involved in their consumption. We start in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and end with tea and coffee in the Arab and Ottoman worlds. Archaeological and textual evidence will be used throughout to show the centrality of drinking in daily, ritual and political life.