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Staying Sober in Mexico City / Stanley Brandes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (259 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292796515
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.292/86/092 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Moral Support in Mexico City -- 2. Religious Adaptations in Alcoholics Anonymous -- 3. Meeting and Moving -- 4. Storytelling -- 5. Gender and the Construction of Manhood -- 6. Blurred Boundaries and the Exercise of Social Control -- 7. Illness and Recovery -- 8. Sobriety and Survival -- Appendix A. The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous/ Los Doce Pasos de Alcohólicos Anónimos -- Appendix B. The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous/ Las Doce Tradiciones de Alcohólicos Anónimos -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index
Summary: Staying sober is a daily struggle for many men living in Mexico City, one of the world's largest, grittiest urban centers. In this engaging study, Stanley Brandes focuses on a common therapeutic response to alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), which boasts an enormous following throughout Mexico and much of Latin America. Over several years, Brandes observed and participated in an all-men's chapter of A.A. located in a working class district of Mexico City. Employing richly textured ethnography, he analyzes the group's social dynamics, therapeutic effectiveness, and ritual and spiritual life. Brandes demonstrates how recovering alcoholics in Mexico redefine gender roles in order to preserve masculine identity. He also explains how an organization rooted historically in evangelical Protestantism has been able to flourish in Roman Catholic Latin America.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Moral Support in Mexico City -- 2. Religious Adaptations in Alcoholics Anonymous -- 3. Meeting and Moving -- 4. Storytelling -- 5. Gender and the Construction of Manhood -- 6. Blurred Boundaries and the Exercise of Social Control -- 7. Illness and Recovery -- 8. Sobriety and Survival -- Appendix A. The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous/ Los Doce Pasos de Alcohólicos Anónimos -- Appendix B. The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous/ Las Doce Tradiciones de Alcohólicos Anónimos -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index

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Staying sober is a daily struggle for many men living in Mexico City, one of the world's largest, grittiest urban centers. In this engaging study, Stanley Brandes focuses on a common therapeutic response to alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), which boasts an enormous following throughout Mexico and much of Latin America. Over several years, Brandes observed and participated in an all-men's chapter of A.A. located in a working class district of Mexico City. Employing richly textured ethnography, he analyzes the group's social dynamics, therapeutic effectiveness, and ritual and spiritual life. Brandes demonstrates how recovering alcoholics in Mexico redefine gender roles in order to preserve masculine identity. He also explains how an organization rooted historically in evangelical Protestantism has been able to flourish in Roman Catholic Latin America.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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