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Higher Powers
China Scherz
George Mpanga
Sarah Namirembe
其他書名
Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2024-02-06
主題
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
ISBN
0520396804
9780520396807
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0mTeEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Higher Powers
draws on four years of collaborative fieldwork carried out with Ugandans working to reconstruct their lives after attempting to leave behind problematic alcohol use. Given the relatively recent introduction of biomedical ideas of alcoholism and addiction in Uganda, most of these people have used other therapeutic resources, including herbal aversion therapies, engagements with
balubaale
spirits, and forms of deliverance and spiritual warfare practiced in Pentecostal churches. While these methods are at times severe, they contain within them understandings of the self and practices of sociality that point away from models of addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease and towards the possibility of release.
Higher Powers
offers a reconceptualization of addiction and recovery that may prove relevant well beyond Uganda.