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Scherz, China, author.

Title Higher powers [electronic resource] : alcohol and after in Uganda's capital city / China Scherz, George Mpanga, and Sarah Namirembe.

Publication Info.	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
	©2024

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Description	1 online resource
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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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access	Open Access EbpS
Subject	Alcoholism -- Uganda -- Kampala.
	Recovering alcoholics -- Uganda -- Kampala.
	Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- Uganda -- Kampala.
	Alternative medicine -- Uganda -- Kampala.
	Alcoolisme -- Ouganda -- Kampala.
	Alcooliques en réadaptation -- Ouganda -- Kampala.
	Alcooliques -- Réadaptation -- Ouganda -- Kampala.
	Médecines parallèles -- Ouganda -- Kampala.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
	Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst00804437
	Alcoholism. (OCoLC)fst00804461
	Alternative medicine. (OCoLC)fst00806153
	Recovering alcoholics. (OCoLC)fst01091699
	Uganda -- Kampala. (OCoLC)fst01209102
Added Author	Mpanga, George (Social scientist), author.
	Namirembe, Sarah, 1988- author.
Other Form:	Print version: 9780520396791 0520396790 (DLC) 2023022681 (OCoLC)1395425272
ISBN	9780520396807 (electronic bk.)
	0520396804 (electronic bk.)
	9780520396791
	0520396790
Standard No.	AU@ 000075360732