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Overview
Where previous studies have focused primarily upon drinking styles among Indian populations, Beatrice Medicine develops an indigenous model for the analysis and control of alcohol abuse. This new ethnography of the Lakota (Standing Rock in North and South Dakota) examines patterns of alcohol consumption and strategies by individuals to attain a new life-style and achieve sobriety. Medicine describes the ineffectiveness of treatments when researchers, policy makers, and health professionals do not use a tribal-specific approach to addiction. She offers an indigenous perspective and understanding that should lead to improved approaches to treatment in mental health and alcohol abuse. Her book is essential for medical anthropologists, Native American studies researchers, and health professionals concerned with Native American health issues and alcohol abuse.
Editorial Reviews
Great Plains Research
Beatrice Medicine's book is an important addition to Native American and Great Plains studies....To support her claims, she presents studies she conducted on Standing Rock Reservation and convincingly links cultural attitudes to current patterns of alcohol use.— 2008
PsycCRITIQUES
Using the Lakota Sioux as the focus of study, she presents a culturally rooted social-ecological analysis of alcohol use, as well as a compelling case for researchers, policy makers, and (mental) health practitioners to emphasize a culture-specific approach to the alcohol use issue.Product Details
Meet the Author
Beatrice Medicine was a teacher and anthropologist, who taught at the California State University at Northridge as well as over thirty universities throughout the United States and Canada. She was descended from the Sihasapa and Minneconjou bands of the Lakota Nation.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 "All Indians are Drunks": A Pervasive Myth Chapter 3 2 Uncorking the Keg: Beginnings of Alcohol Use among American Indians Chapter 4 3 The Recent Past: Minnewakan "Magic Water"—Alcohol and the Lakota Bands Chapter 5 4 A Siouan Social System: Standing Rock Reservation Chapter 6 5 "Everyone Drinks!": Drinking Behavior among Contemporary Lakota (Sioux) Indians Chapter 7 6 American Indian Sobriety: An Uncharted Domain Chapter 8 7 Religious Renaissance and the Control of Alcohol: The Lakota Sun Dance Chapter 9 8 Siouan Sobriety Patterns: "I Was a Better Drunk Than You Were…" Chapter 10 9 "I Got Tired of Drinking. . .": Interpretations of Intents and Continuities of Siouan Sober States Chapter 11 10 Summary and Conclusions: "There's a Lot to Drinking…"