Aboriginal social organization, contemporary experience and American Indian adolescent alcohol use
Aboriginal social organization, contemporary experience and American Indian adolescent alcohol use
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10.15288/jsa.2003.64.450
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2003-07-01
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Beals, J
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Spicer, P;Novins, DK;Beals, J
目的：对美洲印第安人饮酒感兴趣的人类学家长期以来一直认为，在欧洲殖民主义的破坏性影响之前，土著人饮酒的方式受到其社会组织的影响。我们在这篇文章中的目标是明确测试这些因素在四个当代美国印第安文化群体的重要性。方法：使用来自印度青少年纵向项目之声第一波完整的青少年饮酒数据（N = 1，651，51%女性），我们测试了在当代青少年中是否发现了酒精使用的数量-频率模式以及由社会组织变量预测的酒精使用的负面后果，随后，当其他更接近，包括变量。结果如下：在我们分析的最初阶段，文化差异似乎只占酒精使用量-频率和负面影响方差的一小部分，但这些数据中的模式与现有理论对原住民社会组织的预测并不一致。此外，这些文化差异在我们分析的最后一步中不再显著，这表明确实存在的文化差异可以用其他因素更好地解释，至少在这些青少年中是这样。结论：虽然这些分析并没有表明，文化是不相关的理解青少年饮酒在美国印第安人社区，这些影响的经典配方是有限的效用，在理解当代美国印第安人青少年的经验。
Objective: Anthropologists with an interest in American Indian alcohol use have long held that how native people drink has been conditioned by aspects of the social organization of their societies prior to the disruptive influences of European colonialism. Our goal in this article was to explicitly test the importance of these factors in four contemporary American Indian cultural groups. Method: Using data on adolescent alcohol use drawn from the first full wave of the longitudinal Voices of Indian Teens Project (N = 1,651, 51% female), we tested whether patterns of quantity-frequency of alcohol use and the negative consequences of alcohol use predicted by social organizational variables were found among contemporary adolescents and, subsequently, whether these differences persisted when other, more proximal, variables were included. Results: Cultural differences appeared to account for a small percentage of the variance in both quantity-frequency of alcohol use and negative consequences in the initial steps of our analyses, but the pattern in these data was not consistent with the predictions of existing theories regarding aboriginal social organization. Moreover, these cultural differences were no longer significant in the final step of our analyses, suggesting that the cultural differences that did exist were better explained by other factors, at least among these adolescents. Conclusions: Although these analyses did not indicate that culture was irrelevant in understanding adolescent alcohol use in American Indian communities, classic formulations of these effects were of limited utility in understanding the experiences of contemporary American Indian adolescents.