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The pastoral clinic : addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande / / Angela Garcia



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Autore: Garcia Angela <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The pastoral clinic : addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande / / Angela Garcia Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina: 362.29/3092368078952
Soggetto topico: Heroin abuse - New Mexico
Drug addicts - New Mexico
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Graveyard -- TWO. The Elegiac Addict -- THREE. Blood Relative -- FOUR. Suicide as a Form of Life -- FIVE. Experiments with Care -- CONCLUSION. A New Season -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape-northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. We discover how history pervades this region that has endured centuries of material and cultural dispossession, and we come to see its heroin problem as a contemporary expression of these conditions, as well as a manifestation of the human desire to be released from them. Lyrically evoking the Española Valley and its residents through conversations, encounters, and recollections, The Pastoral Clinic is at once a devastating portrait of addiction, a rich ethnography of place, and an eloquent call for a new ethics of care.
Titolo autorizzato: The pastoral clinic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-66086-1
9786612660863
0-520-94782-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810007803321
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