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In the 1950s, Yale University graduate anthropology student Dwight Heath traveled to Bolivia with his wife, Anna, to conduct field work for Dwight’s dissertation on the Camba people. Immersing themselves in Camba culture alerted the Heaths to the fact that the Camba regularly drank 180 proof laboratory alcohol at weekly drinking parties. Heath published his findings in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Despite suffering acute intoxication, the Camba people didn’t exhibit increased violence.
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Chapter Eight: The Fraternity Party
4. In the mid-1950s, a Yale University anthropology graduate student named Dwight Heath traveled to Bolivia with his wife, Anna, and their baby to conduct field work for...
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...the Heaths observed none of this. Nor did they observe any alcoholism among the Camba. Dwight Heath published his findings in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Subsequent studies confirmed Heath’s...
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