ANTHRO 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Anthropologist, Endless Pain
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In angela garcia"s (2010) second chapter of her novel the pastoral clinic: addiction and dispossession along the rio grande, she focuses on the connection between loss and addiction. She does this by way of two individuals" anecdotes of alma and of joseph both who were heroin addicts. Primarily, alma was in and out of the rehabilitation clinic due to one underlying cause: loss (garcia, 2010:74). A drunk driver killed her perfect sister in a car accident, and that loss along with other aspects in alma"s life, played a crucial role in her addiction to heroin (garcia, 2010:76). Garcia (2010) divulges that typically, when one addicted individual admits feeling, there is disconnect; however, with alma, she experienced endless pain and was always connected to that pain of loss (79). This infinite pain alma experienced is described by garcia (2010) as an ethical commitment to what was lost (pp.
