Higher Powers : : Alcohol and After in Uganda's Capital City / / Sarah Namirembe, George Mpanga, China Scherz.
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Scherz, China, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Higher Powers : Alcohol and After in Uganda's Capital City / Sarah Namirembe, George Mpanga, China Scherz. 1st ed. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2024] ©2024 1 online resource (156 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024) This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 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. In English. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Batuzaala mu Baala -- 2 Once an Addict ... -- 3 Put Something in His Drink -- 4 Not You -- 5 Call and Response -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index Alcoholics Rehabilitation Uganda Kampala. Alcoholism Uganda Kampala. Alternative medicine Uganda Kampala. Recovering alcoholics Uganda Kampala. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh 9780520396791 Mpanga, George, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Namirembe, Sarah, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut |
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