Competing Practices of Drinking and Power: Alcoholic "Hegemonism" in Southern Ethiopia

Abbink, Jon

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“…All Tella types are liquid, whereas Korefe is semi-liquid. Tej is made from water, honey (or sugar in the cruder blends), and crushed gesho ( Rhamnus prinoides ) leaves as a fermenting agent [23–26]. Borde is a common meal replacer in southern Ethiopia and is prepared from unmalted cereals and their malt [23].…”

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Non-destructive determination of ethanol levels in fermented alcoholic beverages using Fourier transform mid-infrared spectroscopy

Debebe

Redi‐Abshiro

Chandravanshi

2017

Chemistry Central Journal

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BackgroundTraditional fermented alcoholic beverages are indigenous to a particular area and are prepared by the local people using an age-old techniques and locally available raw materials. The main objective of this work was the direct determination of ethanol in traditional fermented alcoholic beverages using mid infrared spectroscopy with partial least squares regression, verifying the robustness of the calibration models and to assess the quality of beverages.ResultsThe level of ethanol determination in Ethiopian traditional fermented alcoholic beverages was done using mid infrared spectroscopy with partial least squares regression (MIR-PLS). The calibration and validation sets, and real samples spectra were collected with 32 scans from 850–1200 cm−1. A total of 25 synthetic standards (calibration and validation sets) with ethanol (2–10% w/w) and sugars (glucose, fructose, sucrose and maltose) (0–5% w/w) compositions were used to construct and validate the models. Twenty-five different calibration models were validated by cross-validation approach with 25 left out standards. A large number of pre-treatments were verified, but the best pre-treatment was subtracting minimum + 2nd derivative. The model was found to have the highest coefficients of determination for calibration and cross-validation (0.999, 0.999) and root mean square error of prediction [0.1% (w/w)]. For practical relevance, the MIR-PLS predicted values were compared against the values determined by gas chromatography. The predicted values of the model were found to be in excellent agreement with gas chromatographic measurements. In addition, recovery test was conducted with spiking 2.4–6.4% (w/w) ethanol. Based on the obtained recovery percentage, 85.4–107% (w/w), the matrix effects of the samples were not considerable.ConclusionThe proposed technique, MIR-PLS at 1200–850 cm−1 spectral region was found appropriate to quantify ethanol in fermented alcoholic beverages. Among the studied beverages (Tella, Netch Tella, Filter Tella, Korefe, Keribo, Borde and Birz), the average ethanol contents ranged from 0.77–9.1% (v/v). Tej was found to have the highest ethanol content whereas Keribo had the least ethanol content. The developed method was simple, fast, precise and accurate. Moreover, no sample preparation was required at all. However, it should be noted that the present procedure is probably not usable for regulatory purposes (e.g. controlling labelling).

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Non-destructive determination of ethanol levels in fermented alcoholic beverages using Fourier transform mid-infrared spectroscopy

Debebe

Redi‐Abshiro

Chandravanshi

2017

Chemistry Central Journal

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“…As historians and anthropologists have shown (Abbink 1999;Bryceson 2002;van Onselen 1982;Willis 2002), the study of alcohol often creates a useful opening for understanding wider economic and political processes. In 2002 I went to Jimma, roughly 250 km south-west of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with the intent to investigate local forms of 'cosmopolitanism' related to the consumption of modern bottled beer as opposed to locally produced forms of alcohol.…”

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Drinking, Rumour, and Ethnicity in Jimma, Ethiopia

Mains¹

2004

Africa

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This paper is an investigation of the relationship between identity, politics, and rumours in Jimma, Ethiopia. The introduction of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia after the fall of the Marxist Derg regime in 1991 has been the topic of a significant amount of academic discussion, but little attention has been given to the day-to-day experience of this change. Consequently, post-1991 Ethiopian politics have been viewed primarily in terms of ethnic power struggles. An analysis of rumours that are circulated through casual conversation enables a better understanding of popular reactions to ethnic federalism. In particular, rumours regarding the drinking habits of Oromo Muslims and the political behaviour of Protestants reveal that ethnicity is closely intertwined with religion and nationalism. This analysis also demonstrates how a particularly Ethiopian form of discourse functions as a means both of resisting and coping with loss of political power and economic decline. Finally, it explores how international news media coverage of Christian–Muslim conflict and anxieties about globalisation are interrelated with local power struggles. In this paper, rumours are treated as a discourse that provides a window into the worldview of the speaker in order to explore how individuals negotiate political change and construct difference at the everyday level.

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Tej Consumption and Production in the Commensal Politics and Political Economy of States in Northern Highland Ethiopia

Lyons

2021

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Competing Practices of Drinking and Power: Alcoholic "Hegemonism" in Southern Ethiopia

Cited by 5 publications

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Non-destructive determination of ethanol levels in fermented alcoholic beverages using Fourier transform mid-infrared spectroscopy

Non-destructive determination of ethanol levels in fermented alcoholic beverages using Fourier transform mid-infrared spectroscopy

Drinking, Rumour, and Ethnicity in Jimma, Ethiopia

Tej Consumption and Production in the Commensal Politics and Political Economy of States in Northern Highland Ethiopia

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