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Informationen zum Autor Christine Eber is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at New Mexico State University. Klappentext Healing roles and rituals involving alcohol are a major source of power and identity for women and men in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, where abstention from alcohol can bring a loss of meaningful roles and of a sense of community. Yet, as in other parts of the world, alcohol use sometimes leads to abuse, whose effects must then be combated by individuals and the community.In this pioneering ethnography, Christine Eber looks at women and drinking in the community of San Pedro Chenalhó to address the issues of women's identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power. She explores various personal and social strategies women use to avoid problem drinking, including conversion to Protestant religions, membership in cooperatives or Catholic Action, and modification of ritual forms with substitute beverages.The book's women-centered perspective reveals important data on women and drinking not reported in earlier ethnographies of Highland Chiapas communities. Eber's reflexive approach, blending the women's stories, analyses, songs, and prayers with her own and other ethnographers' views, shows how Western, individualistic approaches to the problems of alcohol abuse are inadequate for understanding women's experiences with problem and ritual drinking in a non-Western culture.In a new epilogue, Christine Eber describes how events of the last decade, including the Zapatista uprising, have strengthened women's resolve to gain greater control over their lives by controlling the effects of alcohol in the community. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Major CharactersAcknowledgmentsOn Translations and Aids to Reading This BookPreface1. Frameworks and Methods2. The Time of Suffering: Pedranos, Ladinos, and Rum3. I Have Come: Crazy February4. Making One's Soul Arrive: Child Rearing and Household Relations5. "Before God's flowery face": The Feast of St. Peter6. "Now I am going like a branch and its leaves": Drinkers and Their Families7. Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow: A Processual Framework on Drinking8. "Beneath God's flowery hands and feet": Shamans' Cures for Problem Drinking9. "It's time to change": Mestizoization and Drinking10. "For ye are bought with a price": Traditions, Religions, and Drinking11. "Today we say: Enough!": New Voices, New Collective Action12. ConclusionList of the Martyrs at ActealEpilogueAppendicesA. Traditional Pedrano GodsB. Non-Traditional Healing in ChenalhóC. Brief History of Presbyterianism in ChenalhóD. Revelation 21:3-8NotesGlossaryReferencesIndexIndex of Major Characters...
