SOC130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lascivious Behavior, Basil Thomson
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Alcohol had become popular for its effects on primitive cultures, as anderson"s reference showed; particularly in north america, where distilled liquors were unknown before the colonists arrived from europe. By the end of the seventeenth century missionaries began to report the dire consequences, "lewdness, adultery, incest, and some other crimes which modesty prevents me from naming" father chrestien le clerq wrote of a tribe on the. Gulf of st lawrence are the usual disorders committed by the brandy trade some traders use to harass the indians hand his daughters, and the siblings. Fireflies in all directions, hatchet attacks and knives make a blood flood on either. They commit a thousand abominations the mother and her sons, the father and. Anderson (and banks, a century earlier) referred to these stories; the presumption. Yet this view was recently challenged by craig macandrew and robert edgerton. So long so their experience was "untutored by the opposite standards" .