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Title: Drinking Careers: A Twenty-Five-Year Study of Three Navajo Populations by Stephen J. Kunitz, Jerrold E. Levy ISBN: 0-300-06000-9 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.50

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Summary: Myth and Reality in Indian Drinking
Comment: Levy and Kunitz have been researching Navajo alcohol use for close to thirty years. In this work, they track the alcohol use of a sample Navajo population across time. Unlike early works that emphasized the similarities between Navajo drinking and Anglo drinking, this work spends much of the time on differences between the two populations. Although Anglos and Navajos in the rural Southwest both have alcoholism rates that are pretty much the same, the experiences individual Navajos have with alcohol over time have not been previously explored in great detail. This multi-generational study mixes scientific language with compelling personal stories to great effect. Levy and Kunitz present compelling evidence that Navajo drinking patterns are significantly different from Anglo drinking patterns. In particular, the Navajo trajectory of heavy male drinking during early adulthood turning into moderate drinking by middle age has interesting comparisons with todays college-age men. The study also does a nice job exploring the relationship of Navajo women with alcohol and finds that female Navajos typically have less problems than men, but for those that do have problems the consequences are much worse.
Although this work will probably only appeal to scholars, those with an interest in Navajo culture should read this work, as well as previous volumes by these authors, to better understand the myths and truths surrounding Navajo drinking.