Drinkers, non-drinkers and deferrers : reconsidering the beer/footy couplet amongst Australian rules football fans Thompson, Kirrilly, Palmer, Catherine and Raven, Melissa 2011, Drinkers, non-drinkers and deferrers : reconsidering the beer/footy couplet amongst Australian rules football fans, Australian journal of anthropology, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 388-408, doi: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00152.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Drinkers, non-drinkers and deferrers : reconsidering the beer/footy couplet amongst Australian rules football fans Author(s) Thompson, Kirrilly Palmer, Catherine Raven, Melissa Journal name Australian journal of anthropology Volume number 22 Issue number 3 Start page 388 End page 408 Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia Place of publication Richmond, Vic. Publication date 2011-12 ISSN 1035-8811 1757-6547 Summary There is a common perception that football and alcohol go hand in hand and that players and fans routinely engage in excessive and irresponsible drinking. In Australia, this is manifest in the stereotypical ‘Pissed Aussie Rules fan’. Following research with Australian Rules football fans in South Australia, we identified three categories of fans according to their (non)engagement with alcohol: Drinkers, Non-Drinkers and Deferrers. Deferrers were selfidentified drinkers who separated alcohol consumption from spectating, for fear of ‘contamination’. Our identification of counter-stereotypic ways in which fans engage with alcohol (or not) challenges the assumptive worlds in which popular commentary on football and drinking operates. This was, to our knowledge, the first ethnography of drinking behaviour amongst Australian Rules football fans. It demonstrates the advantage of using ethnographic research techniques to understand the relationship between identity and consumption. Notes Article first published online 21st September 2011 Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00152.x Field of Research 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology Socio Economic Objective 950102 Organised Sports HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2011 Copyright notice ©2011, Australian Anthropological Society Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30042101 Document type: Journal Article Collection: Faculty of Arts and Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 09 Feb 2012, 09:41:05 EST Thu, 09 Feb 2012, 10:13:38 EST Thu, 09 Feb 2012, 10:20:32 EST Thu, 09 Feb 2012, 15:16:36 EST Thu, 09 Feb 2012, 15:18:21 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 8 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 122 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 09 Feb 2012, 09:40:50 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas

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