Pigs, Hogs and Aussie Blokes: The Emergence of the Term ‘Six O’Clock Swill’

Luckins, Tanja

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“… T. Luckins, ‘Competing for Cultural Honours: Cosmopolitanism, food, drink and the 1956 Olympics, Melbourne’, in D. Kirkby and T. Luckins (eds), Dining on Turtles : Food Feasts and Drinking in History (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, ); T. Luckins, ‘Gentrification and Cosmopolitan Leisure in Inner‐Urban Melbourne, Australia, 1960s‐1970s’, Urban Policy and Research , 27/3 ().…”

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Historiographic Foodways: A Survey of Food and Drink Histories in Australia

Luckins

2013

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This essay is a survey of the field of food and drink history in Australia since the 1970s. It discusses the range of research and picks out key historiographic aspects: the search for an Australian cuisine; regional food cultures; connection between sources and historical interpretation; and the interdisciplinarity of food and drink history. It suggests that as food and drink histories have broadened beyond a search for culinary traditions and a gastronomic sensibility, so our understanding of food and drink in Australian history has deepened. It also argues that food and drink history is more than textual knowledge in books and articles: television programs and exhibitions held in museums and libraries, for example, have enhanced our understanding of food and drink histories. and the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, respectively. Moreover, there is a wide range of topics in the field: gastronomy, nutrition, drink cultures, cuisine, diet, home economics, dining and agriculture, which at times seem to exist in isolation from each other. In addition, there are diverse theoretical and methodological approaches including statistical data, memoir, literature, cookbooks, oral history, symbolism, experience, ritual, material culture and cultural studies. Perhaps,then, in the first instance, it is the interdisciplinarity and hybridity of scholarship which marks the field of food and drink history in Australia.From the perspective of a historian, questions about food and drink are profoundly historical. The answers add to our knowledge about food preparation, presentation and consumption, and evaluative notions of cuisine and gastronomic quality. Food and drink can be used as a means to generate fresh understandings of broader historical forces to do with migration,

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Historiographic Foodways: A Survey of Food and Drink Histories in Australia

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2013

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Sydney Flavours: From Convict Colony to Cosmopolitan City

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All the Waters of Lethe

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2011

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Whether it is treated as an issue for consternation or celebration, a propensity for drunkenness has long been represented as an essential trait of the Australian character. The image of the Australian drinker has remained distinctly masculine, with drinking canonised as a male pastime by Russel Ward's The Australian Legend (Ward 1958: 2). While Australian histories of inebriation have recognised the gendered nature of alcohol use, they have assumed implicitly that because drinking typically has been considered a masculine prerogative, the primary significance of liquor consumption to gender studies lies in the role it played in the construction of masculine identity. The assumption has been that because women's drinking was not conducted on the same scale as men's, the excessive drinking indulged in by a minority of females is unimportant to larger understandings of femininity. This has inhibited investigation of female drunkenness, the responses it provoked and the critical expression of power relations constituted by these reactions.

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Pigs, Hogs and Aussie Blokes: The Emergence of the Term ‘Six O’Clock Swill’

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Historiographic Foodways: A Survey of Food and Drink Histories in Australia

Historiographic Foodways: A Survey of Food and Drink Histories in Australia

Sydney Flavours: From Convict Colony to Cosmopolitan City

All the Waters of Lethe

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