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Takes us on a journey into an iconic Western landscape - northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. This title chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled.

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"A new and refreshing study... This 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

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: American Pastoral 1. Graveyard 2. The Elegiac Addict 3. Blood Relative 4. Suicide as a Form of Life 5. Experiments with Care Conclusion: A New Season Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/06/2010
      ISBN13: 9780520262089, 978-0520262089
      ISBN10: 0520262085

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Takes us on a journey into an iconic Western landscape - northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. This title chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled.

      Trade Review
      "A new and refreshing study... This 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

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: American Pastoral 1. Graveyard 2. The Elegiac Addict 3. Blood Relative 4. Suicide as a Form of Life 5. Experiments with Care Conclusion: A New Season Notes Bibliography Index

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