Narcotics Anonymous: Anonymity, Admiration, and Prestige in an Egalitarian Community
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Narcotics Anonymous: Anonymity, Admiration, and Prestige in an Egalitarian Community
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) supports long-term recovery for those addicted to drugs. Paralleling social dynamics in many small-scale societies, NA exhibits tension between egalitarianism and prestige-based hierarchy, a problem exacerbated by the addict’s personality as characterized by NA’s ethnopsychology. We explore how NA’s central principle of anonymity normatively translates into egalitariani...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethos
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0091-2131
DOI: 10.1111/etho.12063