Anthropological perspectives on alcohol and drugs at the turn of the new millennium

Marshall, Mac; Ames, Genevieve M.; Bennett, Linda A.

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(00)00328-2

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“…Anthropological literature about drinking (Singer 1986(Singer , 2012Room et al 1984;Room 1992Room , 2013Room & Mäkelä 2000;Douglas 1987;Hunt & Barker 2001;Dietler 2006;Heath 1975Heath , 1987bHeath , 2010Everett et al 2011Everett et al [1976 ;Spicer 1997;Mandelbaum 1965;Marshall et al 2001;Marshall 1983;Sulkunen 2002) seems to oscillate between two poles and the dilemma of anthropological alcohol studies lies in the predicament of this polarity. Some of the authors claim that anthropologists systematically underestimate the bad effects of alcohol on community life (Room et al 1984), while others claim that the discussion on alcohol ignores the important functions of drinking within society (Heath 2007(Heath , 2010.…”

Section: A Non-normative Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are certainly communities that use, instead of alcohol, other substances that are highly charged with meaning, like kava or khat (Marshall 1976(Marshall , 1983Marshall et al 2001;Bott 1987;Hunt & Barker 2001). Anthropology has considered drinking to be a cultural performance that serves the institution and confirmation of bonds and borders, social proximity and distance inside society.…”

Section: Consuming Alcoholmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One should also not forget the effects of drinking -on consciousness, on emotions, on the body, on mental and physical abilities, on the development of addiction, as well as short-and long-term health effects. Comparative anthropological research has shown that this is not only determined by the biochemical effects that ethanol or other by-products have on the human body and mind but also by expectations and learned behaviour in connection with drunken comportment (Douglas 1987;Lemert 1980;Van-Stone 1980;Hamer & Steinbring 1980b;Marshall et al …”

Section: Consuming Alcoholmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Do You Respect Me?’ Drinking as a Social Catalyst in the Reindeer Herding Communities of European Russia and Western Siberia

Dudeck

2015

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This paper 1 analyses alcohol consumption amongst the indigenous communities of reindeer herders in the Russian North. It introduces the metaphor of the social catalyst to interpret a broad range of effects and motivations linked with drinking practices and discourses associated with alcohol. An anthropological fieldwork methodology allows entry into the sphere of cultural intimacy in order to understand morally suspicious practices usually hidden from the outside world. A non-normative approach is suggested to escape the moral trap of the 'social problem' discourse. Two main patterns of drinking practices, the 'losing face together' and the 'competitive drinking' spree are identified. Whereas the first can be associated with local traditions, the second is linked with male interaction with and within the settler communities. Transgressive practices causing loss of control are examined for their social function and the different notions of 'strength' associated with drinking practices. All of them serve either to confirm, to transcend or to abandon social boundaries, status roles and relationships, which allows us to speak about alcohol as a social catalyst.

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Section: Consuming Alcoholmentioning

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Section: Consuming Alcoholmentioning

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‘Do You Respect Me?’ Drinking as a Social Catalyst in the Reindeer Herding Communities of European Russia and Western Siberia

Dudeck

2015

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“…Anthropologists' efforts to observe and understand alcohol use (Douglas, 1987;Heath, 2000;Marshall, 1979;Marshall, Ames, & Bennett, 2001) have facilitated the discipline's connections with other academic fields and professions (Heath, 1987;Marshall, 1990), including psychology and public health. Anthropological approaches to alcohol show distinctive tendencies to complicate common assumptions about alcohol use and alcohol-related problems, by questioning the validity of diagnostic measures and clinical interventions that are exported into diverse cultural communities, and by examining how drinking practices can serve important cultural and social purposes.…”

Section: Culturally Contextualizing Alcohol and Gender: Anthropologicmentioning

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Alcohol Treatment in Native North America: Gender in Cultural Context

Prussing

Gone

2011

Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly

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Using ethnographic findings from two community-based substance abuse programs for indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada, this article examines how greater attention to cultural context can help to inform the treatment of alcohol problems among Native North American women. Cultural context shapes not only therapeutic activities and interactions within substance abuse programs, but also how such programs develop within different communities. These findings add to the growing evidence that gender can powerfully shape how Native American clients engage spiritual resources and respond to conventional styles of psychotherapeutic talk, supporting emergent efforts to rethink ''cultural competency'' in mental health services for Native North Americans.

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“…Anthropologists have recently detailed the crucial but troubled role of ethnographic research in public health programmes seeking to minimize social and individual damage arising from substance abuse [5]. Hunt & Barker suggest a series of necessary steps for more effective integration of 'an anthropology of substances' that will lend shape to the often disparate and reductive attempts at theorizing, analysing and alleviating drug and alcohol abuse [6].…”

Section: Harm Reduction and Alternative Developmentmentioning

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Harm reduction and alternative development in the Golden Triangle

Lyttleton

Cohen

2003

Drug and Alcohol Review

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The authors of this Digest are anthropologists from Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. At the invitation of the German aid agency GTZ, they have been monitoring opium use and the impact of drug rehabilitation in Muang Sing Laos over the past 3 years. Their role is to provide analyses of how development projects alter the social make-up of their target communities and contribute to ways in which substance use/abuse is understood, practiced and controlled or reconfigured. In their consideration of development projects they take the perspective that harm reduction can and should include pre-emptive concern with factors that promote damaging drug use in the first place and furthermore, that these factors are at times the products of the distinct drug reduction strategies themselves.

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Anthropological perspectives on alcohol and drugs at the turn of the new millennium

Cited by 45 publications

References 42 publications

‘Do You Respect Me?’ Drinking as a Social Catalyst in the Reindeer Herding Communities of European Russia and Western Siberia

‘Do You Respect Me?’ Drinking as a Social Catalyst in the Reindeer Herding Communities of European Russia and Western Siberia

Alcohol Treatment in Native North America: Gender in Cultural Context

Harm reduction and alternative development in the Golden Triangle

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