Women & alcohol in a highland Maya town
Subtitle: water of hope, water of sorrow
By: Christine Eber.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Tzotzil women -- Alcohol use.; Tzotzil women -- Social conditions.; Tzotzil women -- Religious life.; Abused women -- Mexico -- Chenalhó.; Social structure -- Mexico -- Chenalhó.; Feminist anthropology -- Mexico -- Chenalhó.; Chenalhó (Mexico) -- Social conditions.
Other titles: Women and alcohol in a highland Maya town
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and indexes.