The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520262085 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscapenorthern New Mexico’s Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. 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.. 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. 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
"A new and refreshing studyThis is a powerful testament, and Garcia presents a vision of where we need to go when it comes to preventing the slow suicide of addictions."--"The Progressive""Stunningly written and deeply intelligent. This is anthropology at its best."--"American Anthropologist"
One of my favorite ethnographies stynen This book is highly informative and very well-written. Recommended for anyone interested in ethnography, anthropology, the history of the American southwest and its present-day legacies.. "Great all around" according to RP. Garcia is a remarkably talented writer. She conveys crucial insights gleaned from her informants' lives, which span far beyond the particular scope of Hispanola. When I first read this book I loved it, and then I began to use it with my students. It is often one of their very favorite texts.. Logan said Great book. As far as Anthropological texts go this has been the best I have ever read. Garcia is engaging and illustrative in her writing. Her book is not only very paced between chapters and narratives, but also in its analysis. Garcia does not get too bogged down in Psychological or Anthropological Theory (capital T variety) and the book is better for it. The