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Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador
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April 1, 2008
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Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador. By Barbara Butler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 452. Illustrations. Glossary. Notes. References. Index. $37.95 paper.
In this new work, Barbara Butler examines a reversal in the public morality of a group of Ecuadorian Quichua speakers. Until 1987, the residents of the community Hauycopungo invested much of their disposable income in ritualized drinking. Placing a high value on the solidarity created in fiestas, residents tolerated the costs of drunkenness: fights, domestic violence, indebtedness and alcoholism. Then, in March 1987, an earthquake struck, damaging ...
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