Introduction : Sobriety and Subjectivity in Local Worlds -- Understanding Alcohol in Cultural Context. Misrecognizing Local Moral Worlds ; Contextualizing "White Man's Water" -- Women's Narratives : Social Positioning, Subjectivity, and Sobriety. Becoming a Person ; Family Lives and Gendered Experience ; Narratives of Sobriety: Reconfiguring the Empty Center -- Challenges and Possibilities for "Culturally Appropriate" Alcohol Services. Reservation Health Care and the Politics of Local Control ; Concluding Thoughts -- Epilogue 1 : Stephanie Timber -- Epilogue 2 : B.A. Brown