Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town : Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow / Christine Eber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eber, Christine, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Revised Edition

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This pioneering ethnography looks at women and drinking in the Highland Chiapas, Mexico, community of San Pedro Chenalhó to address the issues of women's identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power. In a new epilogue, Christine Eber describes how events of the last decade, including the Zapatista uprising, have strengthened women's resolve to gain greater control over their lives by controlling the effects of alcohol in the community.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Major Characters

Acknowledgments

On Translations and Aids to Reading This Book

Preface

1 Frameworks and Methods

2 The Time of Suffering

3 I Have Come

4 Making One's Soul Arrive

5 "Before God's flowery face

6 "Now I am going like a branch and its leaves"

7 Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow

8 "Beneath God's flowery hands and feet"

9 "It's time to change''

10 "For ye are bought with a price"

11 "Today we say: Enough!"

12 Conclusion

IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF ACTEAL DECEMBER 22,1997

Epilogue

Appendices

Appendix A Traditional Pedrano Gods

Appendix B Non-Traditional Healing in Chenalhó

Appendix C Brief History of Presbyterianism in Chenalhó

Appendix D Revelation 21:3-8

Notes

Glossary

References

Index

Index of Major Characters

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

9780292757172

0292757174

OCLC:

1511484031