Beatrice Medicine

Drinking and Sobriety among the Lakota Sioux

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Whereprevious studies have focused primarily upon drinking styles among Indian populations, Beatrice Medicine develops an indigenous model for the analysis of alcohol abuse, promoting a tribal-specific approach to addiction. This new ethnography of the Lakota examines patterns of alcohol consumption and strategies by individuals to achieve sobriety. Her book is essential for medical anthropologists and health professionals concerned with Native American health issues and alcohol abuse.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Native American Communities
• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9780759105713
• ISBN-10: 0759105715
• Artikelnr.: 21764966

Autorenporträt

Beatrice Medicine was a teacher and anthropologist, who taught at the California State University at Northridge as well as over thirty universities throughout the United States and Canada. She was descended from the Sihasapa and Minneconjou bands of the Lakota Nation.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 "All Indians are Drunks": A Pervasive
Myth Chapter 3 2 Uncorking the Keg: Beginnings of Alcohol Use among
American Indians Chapter 4 3 The Recent Past: Minnewakan "Magic
Water"-Alcohol and the Lakota Bands Chapter 5 4 A Siouan Social System:
Standing Rock Reservation Chapter 6 5 "Everyone Drinks!": Drinking Behavior
among Contemporary Lakota (Sioux) Indians Chapter 7 6 American Indian
Sobriety: An Uncharted Domain Chapter 8 7 Religious Renaissance and the
Control of Alcohol: The Lakota Sun Dance Chapter 9 8 Siouan Sobriety
Patterns: "I Was a Better Drunk Than You Were..." Chapter 10 9 "I Got Tired
of Drinking. . .": Interpretations of Intents and Continuities of Siouan
Sober States Chapter 11 10 Summary and Conclusions: "There's a Lot to
Drinking..."