Addiction in the Making
Posted: 27 Oct 2015
Date Written: October 2015
Abstract
This review traces the literatures in cultural anthropology and neighboring disciplines that are focused on addiction as an object of knowledge and intervention, and as grounds for self-identification, sociality, and action. Highlighting the production of disease categories, the staging of therapeutic interventions, and the ongoing work of governance, this work examines addiction as a key site for the analysis of contemporary life. It likewise showcases a general movement toward accounts of addiction that foreground complexity, contingency, and multiplicity.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Garriott, William and Raikhel, Eugene, Addiction in the Making (October 2015). Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 44, pp. 477-491, 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2679285 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014242
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