This article begins with a scene setter of a couple traveling to Bolivia to do some anthropological research. There's not too much regarding drinking in this first section and I was confused as to where the article was going. I did feel that this intro was written very well and it did catch my attention so it didn't bother me too much that there was no drinking mentioned at first. When the purpose of the story comes along, I found myself interested in the different ways people drink though.
This article almost reads more like an ethnographic anthropological article than a magazine article. Although this was not a huge problem, I felt like there were some points in the article where I just simply got confused at what was being said. Some of it just seemed above my head and I feel that the average magazine reader may have felt the same. I also feel like the article lacked actual quotes from sources which the author gets his info from. We get a lot of quotes from the Heath couple, but we get little else.
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