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Author Scherz, China, author

Title Higher powers alcohol and after in Uganda's capital city / China Scherz, George Mpanga, and Sarah Namirembe
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
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Contents 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
Summary 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
Subject Alcoholism -- Uganda -- Kampala
Recovering alcoholics -- Uganda -- Kampala
Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- Uganda -- Kampala
Alternative medicine -- Uganda -- Kampala
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Form Electronic book
Author Mpanga, George (Social scientist), author
Namirembe, Sarah, 1988- author
ISBN 9780520396807
0520396804