Anthropology of Addictions and Recovery - Softcover

Irene Glasser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577665589 ISBN 13: 9781577665588

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 2011

Synopsis

It is nearly impossible to discuss alcohol, tobacco, and drugs without applying our own cultural prism. In a concise, nontechnical manner, anthropologist Irene Glasser combines her own research with that of others to show the importance of removing cultural biases to uncover crucial understandings about substance use and misuse. Ethnographic examples elucidate the diverse meanings of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs around the world as well as the psychological and physiological effects of their use. Glasser applies anthropological research methods in her examination of treatment and recovery and uncovers why some programs are more effective than others. The book’s focus on culture and how it affects people’s relationships to mind-altering substances, together with experiential learning activities at the end of each chapter, will generate new realizations and open doors for further exploration.

Titles of related interest also from Waveland Press: Singer, Drugging the Poor: Legal and Illegal Drugs and Social Inequality (ISBN 9781577664949); Singer, The Face of Social Suffering: The Life History of a Street Drug Addict (ISBN 9781577664321); Singer, Something Dangerous: Emergent and Changing Illicit Drug Use and Community Health (ISBN 9781577663768); and Spradley, You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads (ISBN 9781577660859).

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Review:

"This brief, discriminating survey--the first of its kind--shows how anthropologists, in collaboration with those in other fields, study addiction as an illness rather than simply a disease." --Lee Hoffer, Case Western Reserve University

About this edition

• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1577665589
• ISBN 13: 9781577665588
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 116