Women & alcohol in a highland Maya town

Women & alcohol in a highland Maya town

by Christine Engla Eber

1995
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"Eber combines a sensitive, reflexive style of writing, to create a powerful and insightful account of the changing uses of alcohol among Mayan women. The result is a text that is ethnographically rich and theoretically challenging. Alcoholism is much more than a substance abuse issue, it is embedded in social, gender, and ethnic relations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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    How does Christine Engla Eber challenge the Western lens of viewing alcoholism strictly as an individual disease versus a deeply communal and cultural phenomenon in the Maya highlands?

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    In what ways do gender roles and traditional expectations within this Highland Maya community dictate how, when, and why women consume alcohol?

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    Eber highlights how alcohol is deeply embedded in social, religious, and ethnic relations; can you think of a tradition or ritual in your own culture where food or drink plays a similar, unavoidable role in binding people together?

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