My colleague William Garriott of James Madison University’s Department of Justice Studies was recently interviewed by the website Left Eye on Books about his recently published monograph Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America (NYU Press: 2011). In the interview Garriott discusses the concept of narcopolitics, the particular role ethnography has to play in understanding an emergent phenomenon like methamphetamine, …
Tag Archives: Addiction
Angela Garcia’s The Pastoral Clinic
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
University of California Press, 2010. 264 pp., US$24.95 (paperback).
Angela Garcia’s magisterial, unsettling account of heroin addiction among a Hispanic community in Espanola Valley opens with a description of Nuevo Dias, a rural detoxification facility for drug users. Accepting the executive director’s challenge to “work” …
Book review: Zigon’s "HIV is God’s Blessing"
This article is part of the series: From the Somatosphere archives
Jarrett Zigon. “HIV Is God’s Blessing”: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 280 pages. $24.95.
Reviewed by Tomas Matza (Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University)
Anthropologists have taken a keen interest in the way that the collapse of the Soviet Union has impacted the everyday lives of the people living in that region. The fact …
Give me the fear!
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| Narcologist Vyacheslav Davidov (Photo: Gregory Warner) |
A couple of months ago I got an email from Gregory Warner, the health reporter for NPR’s Marketplace, who told me that he wanted to discuss my work. Gregory had just returned from Moscow, where he had visited a clinic which treated alcoholism with what seemed to be some very strange techniques. …
Shao-hua Liu’s Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin and AIDS in Southwest China
This article is part of the series: From the Somatosphere archives
Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin and AIDS in Southwest China
Shao-hua Li
Stanford University Press, 2010. 248 pp., US$ 22.95 (paperback).
Reviewed by Nicholas Bartlett, University of California-San Francisco
Shao-hua Liu’s Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin and AIDS in Southwest China chronicles the tragic consequences of the efforts of Nuosu youth to improve their lives during the …
Nancy Campbell on "America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts"
Over at Neuroanthropology’s new site on PLoS Blogs, Daniel Lende has a very nice post about The Narcotic Farm — a book about Lexington, Kentucky’s infamous center for research and treatment of drug addiction — co-authored by Nancy Campbell, JP Olsen, Luke Walden. We ran a post about the book when it was first published a couple of years ago, …