“Not just a drunk”: Eeyou drinking and agency in Chisasibi
Eeyou (Cree) people in Chisasibi, Quebec who engage in public drinking and drunkenness often have their behaviour and identity reduced to those of victims: victims of colonialism and assimilation attempts, victims of family violence, victims of addiction. Talking to the drinkers themselves is highly...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::3392864451305ef1af5c205949d72023 2023-05-15T15:54:16+02:00 “Not just a drunk”: Eeyou drinking and agency in Chisasibi Jacky Vallée 2019-04-23 http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2018-v17-n1-dss04516/1059138ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2018-v17-n1-dss04516/1059138ar.pdf https://doi.org/10.7202/1059138ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2018-v17-n1-dss04516/1059138ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2947738947 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1059138ar undefined unknown Consortium Erudit http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2018-v17-n1-dss04516/1059138ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2018-v17-n1-dss04516/1059138ar.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1059138ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2018-v17-n1-dss04516/1059138ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2947738947 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1059138ar undefined 1059138ar 10.7202/1059138ar 2947738947 oai:erudit.org:1059138ar 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|issn___print::fe04a8c6a9af64409be6302b37bf8191 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a 10|opendoar____::16e6a3326dd7d868cbc926602a61e4d0 Sciences Humaines et Sociales Social Sciences and Humanities boire autochtone phénoménologie alcool et agentivité alcool et identités Indigenous drinking phenomenology drinking and agency drinking and identity anthro-se droit Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2019 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7202/1059138ar 2023-01-22T17:17:06Z Eeyou (Cree) people in Chisasibi, Quebec who engage in public drinking and drunkenness often have their behaviour and identity reduced to those of victims: victims of colonialism and assimilation attempts, victims of family violence, victims of addiction. Talking to the drinkers themselves is highly discouraged by fellow community members and often not considered by anthropological researchers. This ethnographic article is based on participant-observation and semi-formal interviews with adult women and men who self-identified as drinkers or former drinkers. It highlights the perspectives of people who currently engage, or have engaged in the past, in drinking behaviour that is perceived as “problematic” by their community and by social science researchers. Through a phenomenological approach, the concepts of lifeworlds and agency are used to illustrate how people actively engage with prominent community worldviews in thinking about their own behaviour and identities. Community members may refer to them as “drunks” or “zombies”. But these individuals refer to wider aspects of their identities and to their own agency in discussing their lives. As such, they appropriate identities as community members and claim their agency in spite of implications that they have forsaken these identities and this agency by engaging in extreme drinking. Il arrive souvent que le comportement et l’identité des Eeyous (Cris) de Chisasibi (Québec) qui consomment de l’alcool et sont ivres en public soient réduits à ceux de victimes : victimes de la colonisation et des tentatives d’assimilation, victimes de violence familiale, victimes de dépendances. Les autres membres de la communauté déconseillent fortement de s’adresser directement aux buveurs* et les chercheurs en anthropologie les ignorent la plupart du temps. Cet article ethnographique s’appuie sur l’observation participante et sur des entrevues semi-formelles effectuées auprès de femmes et d’hommes adultes qui se disent buveurs ou ex-buveurs. Il met en lumière le point de vue ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Chisasibi Cris Unknown Chisasibi ENVELOPE(-78.333,-78.333,53.667,53.667) Drogues, santé et société 17 1 21 69 |
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Eeyou (Cree) people in Chisasibi, Quebec who engage in public drinking and drunkenness often have their behaviour and identity reduced to those of victims: victims of colonialism and assimilation attempts, victims of family violence, victims of addiction. Talking to the drinkers themselves is highly discouraged by fellow community members and often not considered by anthropological researchers. This ethnographic article is based on participant-observation and semi-formal interviews with adult women and men who self-identified as drinkers or former drinkers. It highlights the perspectives of people who currently engage, or have engaged in the past, in drinking behaviour that is perceived as “problematic” by their community and by social science researchers. Through a phenomenological approach, the concepts of lifeworlds and agency are used to illustrate how people actively engage with prominent community worldviews in thinking about their own behaviour and identities. Community members may refer to them as “drunks” or “zombies”. But these individuals refer to wider aspects of their identities and to their own agency in discussing their lives. As such, they appropriate identities as community members and claim their agency in spite of implications that they have forsaken these identities and this agency by engaging in extreme drinking. Il arrive souvent que le comportement et l’identité des Eeyous (Cris) de Chisasibi (Québec) qui consomment de l’alcool et sont ivres en public soient réduits à ceux de victimes : victimes de la colonisation et des tentatives d’assimilation, victimes de violence familiale, victimes de dépendances. Les autres membres de la communauté déconseillent fortement de s’adresser directement aux buveurs* et les chercheurs en anthropologie les ignorent la plupart du temps. Cet article ethnographique s’appuie sur l’observation participante et sur des entrevues semi-formelles effectuées auprès de femmes et d’hommes adultes qui se disent buveurs ou ex-buveurs. Il met en lumière le point de vue ... |
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