White man's water : the politics of sobriety in a Native American community / Erica Prussing

Author:: Prussing, Erica, 1968-
Published:: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2011]
Copyright Date:: ©2011
Physical Description:: viii, 272 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

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Series:

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Contents:

Introduction : Sobriety and Subjectivity in Local Worlds -- Understanding Alcohol in Cultural Context. Misrecognizing Local Moral Worlds ; Contextualizing "White Man's Water" -- Women's Narratives : Social Positioning, Subjectivity, and Sobriety. Becoming a Person ; Family Lives and Gendered Experience ; Narratives of Sobriety: Reconfiguring the Empty Center -- Challenges and Possibilities for "Culturally Appropriate" Alcohol Services. Reservation Health Care and the Politics of Local Control ; Concluding Thoughts -- Epilogue 1 : Stephanie Timber -- Epilogue 2 : B. A. Brown.

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ISBN:

9780816529438 (cloth : alk. paper)
0816529434 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-264) and index.

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