Reconfiguring the empty center: Drinking, sobriety, and identity in native American women's narratives

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 499-526

  Prussing, Erica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; Narrative analysis; Native North America; Sobriety; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ALCOHOLISM; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ALCOHOLISM; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; NARRATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL FACILITATION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; TEMPERANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36549035411     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-007-9064-0     Document Type: Article

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