Spicer P
National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native, Mental Health Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80220, USA.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1998 Jun;22(2):139-69. doi: 10.1023/a:1005305309191.
This paper explores the impact of American Indian people's experiences on the kinds of accounts they offer for their drinking. Based on the analysis of three transcripts that are representative of open-ended interviews with 48 self-defined problem drinkers from the Minneapolis American Indian community, it develops the argument that narrative is neither a necessary nor inevitable way to talk about illnesses and other difficulties. Distinguishing between narratives, which are marked by the element of evaluation where the implications of a person's drinking are clearly stated, and chronicles, in which this element is absent, this paper discusses the implications of non-narrative accounts for our treatments of culture and experience in anthropology.
本文探讨了美国印第安人饮酒经历对他们饮酒原因描述方式的影响。基于对三份访谈记录的分析，这些记录代表了对明尼阿波利斯美国印第安社区48名自认为有饮酒问题者进行的开放式访谈，本文提出这样的观点：叙事并非谈论疾病及其他困难的必要或必然方式。本文区分了以明确阐述个人饮酒影响的评价元素为特征的叙事和缺乏该元素的纪事，并讨论了非叙事性描述对我们在人类学中处理文化和经验的意义。
