Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the
contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency
of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based
on ethnographic research conducted in sites from alcohol treatment
clinics in Russia to Pentecostal addiction ministries in Puerto
Rico, the essays are linked by the contributors' attention to the
dynamics-including the cultural, scientific, legal, religious,
personal, and social-that shape the meaning of "addiction" in
particular settings. They examine how it is understood and
experienced among professionals working in the criminal justice
system of a rural West Virginia community; Hispano residents of New
Mexico's Espanola Valley, where the rate of heroin overdose is
among the highest in the United States; homeless women
participating in an outpatient addiction therapy program in the
Midwest; machine-gaming addicts in Las Vegas, and many others. The
collection's editors suggest "addiction trajectories" as a useful
rubric for analyzing the changing meanings of addiction across
time, place, institutions, and individual lives. Pursuing three
primary trajectories, the contributors show how addiction comes
into being as an object of knowledge, a site of therapeutic
intervention, and a source of subjective experience. Contributors.
Nancy D. Campbell, E. Summerson Carr, Angela Garcia, William
Garriott, Helena Hansen, Anne M. Lovell, Emily Martin, Todd Meyers,
Eugene Raikhel, A. Jamie Saris, Natasha Dow Schull
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