Joy Leland
Biographic Data
| ID | 236897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joy Leland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joy |
| FAMILY NAME | Leland |
| SIGNATURE | LELAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Alcohol and Ethnography
The modern ethnographic literature on alcohol tends to underestimate problems due to drinking. This "problem deflation" probably reflects a concurrence of various assumptions, methods, and theoretical orientations. Functionalist assumptions direct attention more to the gains than to the losses involved in drinking. The pleasures of drinking are more easily observed, given the ethnographer's focus on the everyday and the social, than the private p…
Alcohol, Anthropologists, and Native Americans
Part four
The author describes two aspects of alcohol in the lives of the women in a Nevada Indian settlement: their drinking behavior and their techniques for coping with men's drinking. In a folk taxonomy, informants identified five styles of drinking behavior practiced by women, and they classified each adult female into one of these styles. The behavior associated with each drinking style is described and incidence rates are presented. A majority of th…
Firewater Myths
Journal Article Firewater Myths: North American Indian Drinking and Alcohol Addiction Get access Firewater Myths: North American Indian Drinking and Alcohol Addiction. By Leland Joy. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1976. xv, 158 p. Tables, appendix, bibliography, index. $8.50.) Wilbur R. Jacobs Wilbur R. Jacobs University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Some Northern Paiute Native Categories
Alcohol and Ethnography
The modern ethnographic literature on alcohol tends to underestimate problems due to drinking. This "problem deflation" probably reflects a concurrence of various assumptions, methods, and theoretical orientations. Functionalist assumptions direct attention more to the gains than to the losses involved in drinking. The pleasures of drinking are more easily observed, given the ethnographer's focus on the everyday and the social, than the private p…
Some Northern Paiute Native Categories
Part four
The author describes two aspects of alcohol in the lives of the women in a Nevada Indian settlement: their drinking behavior and their techniques for coping with men's drinking. In a folk taxonomy, informants identified five styles of drinking behavior practiced by women, and they classified each adult female into one of these styles. The behavior associated with each drinking style is described and incidence rates are presented. A majority of th…
Alcohol, Anthropologists, and Native Americans
Some Northern Paiute Native Categories
Firewater Myths
Journal Article Firewater Myths: North American Indian Drinking and Alcohol Addiction Get access Firewater Myths: North American Indian Drinking and Alcohol Addiction. By Leland Joy. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1976. xv, 158 p. Tables, appendix, bibliography, index. $8.50.) Wilbur R. Jacobs Wilbur R. Jacobs University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Part four
The author describes two aspects of alcohol in the lives of the women in a Nevada Indian settlement: their drinking behavior and their techniques for coping with men's drinking. In a folk taxonomy, informants identified five styles of drinking behavior practiced by women, and they classified each adult female into one of these styles. The behavior associated with each drinking style is described and incidence rates are presented. A majority of th…
Alcohol, Anthropologists, and Native Americans
Alcohol and Ethnography
The modern ethnographic literature on alcohol tends to underestimate problems due to drinking. This "problem deflation" probably reflects a concurrence of various assumptions, methods, and theoretical orientations. Functionalist assumptions direct attention more to the gains than to the losses involved in drinking. The pleasures of drinking are more easily observed, given the ethnographer's focus on the everyday and the social, than the private p…
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