Title: Women & alcohol in a highland Maya town :
Authors: Eber, Christine Engla.
Date: 2000
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Physical description: xxiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: F
Contents: Frameworks and Methods -- The Time of Suffering / Pedranos, Ladinos, and Rum -- I Have Come / Crazy February -- Making One's Soul Arrive / Child Rearing and Household Relations -- "Before God's flowery face" / The Feast of St. Peter -- "Now I am going like a branch and its leaves" / Drinkers and Their Families -- Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow / A Processual Framework on Drinking -- "Beneath God's flowery hands and feet" / Shamans' Cures for Problem Drinking -- "It's time to change" / Mestizoization and Drinking -- "For ye are bought with a price" / Traditions, Religions, and Drinking -- "Today we say: Enough!" / New Voices, New Collective Action -- Conclusion -- Traditional Pedrano Gods.
Subject headings (LCSH): Abused women--Mexico--Chenalhó.; Chenalhó (Mexico)--Social conditions.; Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Mexico--Chenalhó.; Feminist anthropology--Mexico--Chenalhó.; Social structure--Mexico--Chenalhó.; Tzotzil women--Alcohol use.; Tzotzil women--Religion.; Tzotzil women--Religious life.; Tzotzil women--Social conditions--20th century.; Tzotzil women--Social conditions.