Pastoral clinic : addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande / Angela Garcia.

By:

Garcia, Angela, 1971-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.Description: xv, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.;PbkISBN:

9780520262089 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

362.29309 GAR 22

Contents:

Introduction -- Graveyard -- The elegiac addict -- Blood relative -- Suicide as a form of life -- Experiments with care -- Conclusion: a new season.

Summary: The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape—northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to 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 Espanola 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	362.29309 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K2415

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TB/236/210720

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index.

Introduction --
Graveyard --
The elegiac addict --
Blood relative --
Suicide as a form of life --
Experiments with care --
Conclusion: a new season.

The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape—northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to 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 Espanola 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.

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