Research Catalog

Title

Women & alcohol in a highland Maya town : water of hope, water of sorrow / Christine Eber.

Author

Eber, Christine Engla.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.

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Description

xxiv, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Women and alcohol in a highland Maya town

Subjects

• Social structure > Mexico > Chenalhó
• Feminist anthropology > Mexico > Chenalhó
• Tzotzil women > Social conditions
• Tzotzil women > Alcohol use
• Chenalhó (Mexico) > Social conditions
• Abused women > Mexico > Chenalhó
• Tzotzil women > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and index.

Contents

1. Frameworks and Methods -- 2. The Time of Suffering: Pedranos, Ladinos, and Rum -- 3. I Have Come: Crazy February -- 4. Making One's Soul Arrive: Child Rearing and Household Relations -- 5. "Before God's flowery face": The Feast of St. Peter -- 6. "Now I am going like a branch and its leaves": Drinkers and Their Families -- 7. Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow: A Processual Framework on Drinking -- 8. "Beneath God's flowery hands and feet": Shamans' Cures for Problem Drinking -- 9. "It's time to change": Mestizoization and Drinking -- 10. "For ye are bought with a price": Traditions, Religions, and Drinking -- 11. "Today we say: Enough!": New Voices, New Collective Action -- 12. Conclusion -- App. A. Traditional Pedrano Gods -- App. B. Non-Traditional Healing in Chenalho -- App. C. Brief History of Presbyterianism in Chenalho -- App. D. Revelation 21:3-8.

ISBN

• 0292720890 (alk. paper)
• 0292720904 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

94031546

OCLC

• 30914579
• ocm30914579

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries