“Not just a drunk”: Eeyou drinking and agency in Chisasibi

• Published in: Drogues, santé et société
• Main Author: Jacky Vallée
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Consortium Erudit 2019
• Subjects: 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; Chisasibi; Cris
• Online Access: 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

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...