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Drinking Careers - A Twenty-Five Year Study of Three Navajo Populations (Hardcover, Reissue)
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Drinking Careers - A Twenty-Five Year Study of Three Navajo Populations (Hardcover, Reissue)
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In this book, the first long-term follow-up study of alcohol use
among Native Americans, a physician and sociologist and an
anthropologist examine the data on three groups of Navajos whom
they first interviewed about their use of alcohol in 1966. The
authors find verification for their initial hypothesis that young
men who would have been classed as alcoholic often stop or moderate
their drinking as they age. They also find that there is
considerable diversity in the patterns of alcohol use among both
women and men. Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy study the
histories of those who have died as well as those who have survived
since the first study was done. They show that, compared to those
who have survived, the former were more likely to have been
solitary drinkers and were on average younger at the time when they
were first interviewed. The authors also present data for the
entire Navajo population on changing mortality from alcohol-related
causes from the 1960s to the present; they compare alcohol-related
death rates among Navajos to those among rural Anglos in Arizona
and New Mexico; they analyze two family histories - one of a family
with severe alcohol problems, the other of a family with none -
that illustrate how traditional patterns of wealth have shaped the
way people have learned to use alcohol; they study the factors that
may have led to the emergence of a solitary, unrestrained drinking
style among some Navajos; and they describe the changes in
treatment programs and the transformation of traditional healing
systems as they are integrated into a bureaucratized health care
system.
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