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'Problem deflation' and the ethnographic record: interpretation and introspection in anthropological studies of alcohol
Journal of substance abuse • 2 • Published In 1990 • Pages: 353-367
By: Marshall, Mac.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is largely a re-evaluation of the author's earlier work on Chuuk drinking behavior (see document no. 33) in light of criticism leveled at ethnologists for treating drunken behavior in functionalist and cultural relativist terms and not as a possible variant of a universal disease, alcoholism. In this article, Marshall critiques the debate and discusses how his view of Chuuk drinking behavior changed when he learned about the concerns of Chuuk women, who were involved in a successful temperance movement (see document no. 35.) He attributes his earlier oversight of the social problems of drinking to his overriding concern for a cultural explanation, and his failure to consider the point of view of Chuuk women.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Alcoholic beverages
- Alcoholism and drug addiction
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chuuk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1969-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mac Marshall
- Includes bibliographical references (p.366-367)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88659423
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)