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…"
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.
I believe that treatment centers do not treat the whole person.
They do not, for instance, tell a person that their treatment
equips them with coping skills that deal with physical addiction,
but cannot eliminate craving. I don't think they delve into the
spiritual aspects profoundly enough even though there is a concept
of a higher power in AA meetings. Bea Medicine's study will give a
new and revealing perspective on American Indian alcoholism, one
that will contribute immensely to the treatment of American
Indians.
*Richard Little Bear, president, Chief Dull Knife College*
Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries.
*CHOICE, October 2007*
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.
*PsycCRITIQUES*
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.
*Great Plains Research*
For at least the last 15 years of her life, Dr. Beatrice Medicine
was making and recording new ethnographic observations and
carefully working toward new theoretical conclusions regarding
'Drinking and Sobriety Among the Lakota Sioux,' thus expanding
her1969 study on the subject. Her new empirically developed study
is packed with explicit examples of how Lakota men and women
experience and culturally manage alcohol consumption, presented in
a way that helps readers understand how certain undercurrents
ofLakota life and culture support both alcoholism and sobriety. For
example, in a culture packed with rewards for behaviors that are
indicative of strong individualism, Medicine describes how
alcoholics use this value to maintain heavy drinking (on the
onehand) and (on the other) to invoke it as part of their strategic
determination to attain new and individual sobriety. The pattern is
nearly full opposite to 12-step programs and others that call upon
'group' or 'community' sanction against alcoholism inorder to
'cure' individual alcoholics. This posthumous last great work of
Dr. Beatrice Medicine is an important book that has value across
academic disciplines and at all levels of higher education. It will
also be valuable in environments where it is imp
*Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Professor Emerita, University of Washington,
Seattle*
For at least the last 15 years of her life, Dr. Beatrice Medicine
was making and recording new ethnographic observations and
carefully working toward new theoretical conclusions regarding
'Drinking and Sobriety Among the Lakota Sioux,' thus expanding her
1969 study on the subject. Her new empirically developed study is
packed with explicit examples of how Lakota men and women
experience and culturally manage alcohol consumption, presented in
a way that helps readers understand how certain undercurrents of
Lakota life and culture support both alcoholism and sobriety. For
example, in a culture packed with rewards for behaviors that are
indicative of strong individualism, Medicine describes how
alcoholics use this value to maintain heavy drinking (on the one
hand) and (on the other) to invoke it as part of their strategic
determination to attain new and individual sobriety. The pattern is
nearly full opposite to 12-step programs and others that call upon
'group' or 'community' sanction against alcoholism in order to
'cure' individual alcoholics. This posthumous last great work of
Dr. Beatrice Medicine is an important book that has value across
academic disciplines and at all levels of higher education. It will
also be valuable in environments where it is important to consider
new antecedents and measures to help with mental health and social
work issues associated with American Indian drinking, domestic
violence, child rearing, and diversity of gender roles.
*Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Professor Emerita, University of Washington,
Seattle*
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