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<p>This article examines how excessive alcohol consumption among the Pastos people of Gran Cumbal, in southern Colombia, reveals that drinking is not merely a physiological problem but a relational and moral process shaped by ancestral cosmologies, Catholic spirituality, and everyday community life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how the body becomes a site where suffering, guilt, and care are negotiated. Healing, prayer, and relapse intertwine within moral grammars that aim to restore social harmony and balance rather than achieve definitive recovery.</p>

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Drink, Bodies and Religion: Embodied Grammars of Alcohol Dependence among the Pastos of Gran Cumbal

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    2026年3月30日

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  • Diego Meza

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This article examines how excessive alcohol consumption among the Pastos people of Gran Cumbal, in southern Colombia, reveals that drinking is not merely a physiological problem but a relational and moral process shaped by ancestral cosmologies, Catholic spirituality, and everyday community life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how the body becomes a site where suffering, guilt, and care are negotiated. Healing, prayer, and relapse intertwine within moral grammars that aim to restore social harmony and balance rather than achieve definitive recovery.