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White Man's Water : The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous StudiesPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (283 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816502325
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: White Man's WaterDDC classification:
  • 362.292/860897353
LOC classification:
  • E99
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Sobriety and Subjectivity in Local Worlds -- Part I: Understanding Alcohol in Cultural Context -- 2. Misrecognizing Local Moral Worlds -- 3. Contextualizing "White Man's Water" -- Part II: Women's Narratives: Social Positioning,Subjectivity, and Sobriety -- 4. Becoming a Person -- 5. Family Lives and Gendered Experience -- 6. Narratives of Sobriety: Reconfiguring the Empty Center -- Part III: Challenges and Possibilities for"Culturally Appropriate" Alcohol Services -- 7. Reservation Health Care and the Politics of Local Control -- 8. Concluding Thoughts -- Epilogue 1: Stephanie Timber -- Epilogue 2: B. A. Brown -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Sobriety and Subjectivity in Local Worlds -- Part I: Understanding Alcohol in Cultural Context -- 2. Misrecognizing Local Moral Worlds -- 3. Contextualizing "White Man's Water" -- Part II: Women's Narratives: Social Positioning,Subjectivity, and Sobriety -- 4. Becoming a Person -- 5. Family Lives and Gendered Experience -- 6. Narratives of Sobriety: Reconfiguring the Empty Center -- Part III: Challenges and Possibilities for"Culturally Appropriate" Alcohol Services -- 7. Reservation Health Care and the Politics of Local Control -- 8. Concluding Thoughts -- Epilogue 1: Stephanie Timber -- Epilogue 2: B. A. Brown -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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