Addiction Trajectories

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353644
• ISBN13: 9780822353645
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"