Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town Glossary

by Christine Eber

Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town Glossary

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Abstinence

The practice of restraint from indulging in something

Ambivalent

Uncertain

Catastrophic

Disastrous

Fertility

The ability to conceive babies

Debilitating

Weakening

Fermented

Went through the process of fermentation

Ethnographers

Social scientists who study people and their cultures through the subjects' point of view through various methods

Indigenous

Native

Alcoholism

Addiction to alcohol consumption

Compulsive

Habitual

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