Staying Sober in Mexico City
Staying sober is a daily struggle for many men living in Mexico City, one of the world's largest, grittiest urban centers. In this engaging study, Stanley Brandes focuses on a common therapeutic response to alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), which boasts an enormous following throughout Mexico and much of Latin America.

Over several years, Brandes observed and participated in an all-men's chapter of A.A. located in a working class district of Mexico City. Employing richly textured ethnography, he analyzes the group's social dynamics, therapeutic effectiveness, and ritual and spiritual life. Brandes demonstrates how recovering alcoholics in Mexico redefine gender roles in order to preserve masculine identity. He also explains how an organization rooted historically in evangelical Protestantism has been able to flourish in Roman Catholic Latin America.

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Staying Sober in Mexico City
Staying sober is a daily struggle for many men living in Mexico City, one of the world's largest, grittiest urban centers. In this engaging study, Stanley Brandes focuses on a common therapeutic response to alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), which boasts an enormous following throughout Mexico and much of Latin America.

Over several years, Brandes observed and participated in an all-men's chapter of A.A. located in a working class district of Mexico City. Employing richly textured ethnography, he analyzes the group's social dynamics, therapeutic effectiveness, and ritual and spiritual life. Brandes demonstrates how recovering alcoholics in Mexico redefine gender roles in order to preserve masculine identity. He also explains how an organization rooted historically in evangelical Protestantism has been able to flourish in Roman Catholic Latin America.

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Staying Sober in Mexico City

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Staying sober is a daily struggle for many men living in Mexico City, one of the world's largest, grittiest urban centers. In this engaging study, Stanley Brandes focuses on a common therapeutic response to alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), which boasts an enormous following throughout Mexico and much of Latin America.

Over several years, Brandes observed and participated in an all-men's chapter of A.A. located in a working class district of Mexico City. Employing richly textured ethnography, he analyzes the group's social dynamics, therapeutic effectiveness, and ritual and spiritual life. Brandes demonstrates how recovering alcoholics in Mexico redefine gender roles in order to preserve masculine identity. He also explains how an organization rooted historically in evangelical Protestantism has been able to flourish in Roman Catholic Latin America.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780292709089
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 05/01/2002
Edition description: 1ST
Pages: 259
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Stanley Brandes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Moral Support in Mexico City
  • Chapter Two. Religious Adaptations in Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Chapter Three. Meeting and Moving
  • Chapter Four. Storytelling
  • Chapter Five. Gender and the Construction of Manhood
  • Chapter Six. Blurred Boundaries and the Exercise of Social Control
  • Chapter Seven. Illness and Recovery
  • Chapter Eight. Sobriety and Survival
  • Appendix A. The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous/Los Doce Pasos de Alcohólicos Anónimos
  • Appendix B. The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous/Las Doce Tradiciones de Alcohólicos Anónimos
  • Notes
  • References Cited
  • Index

What People are Saying About This

Marcelo Suarez-Orozco

This is an impeccably crafted work by one of the most widely respected anthropologists of his generation. . . . I am quite confident that it will become not only the standard reference on the cultural study of alcoholism in Mexico, but also one of the very best overall social science contributions to the study of Mexican culture produced in the last fifty years.
— Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Victor S. Thomas Professor and Codirector of the Harvard Immigration Project, Harvard University

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