Word: decanting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Firewater Legend. The authors decant jeroboams of evidence to support their contention that what society expects of the drinker efficiently polices the uninhibiting effect of the drink. The Lepchas, a Mongolian tribe found in the Sikkim Himalayas, enforce incest taboos of astonishing complexity: a man may not couple with his wife's mother or elder sisters, the wife of his wife's older brother, the wives of his sons and younger brothers, and so on. On the annual rice-festival night, when everyone gets bleary on the native brew chi, sexual abandon is not only permitted but practiced...