Publications
Angela Garcia is an award-winning anthropologist and author. She is known for her work on addiction, kinship, ethics, and violence, and the ways these are shaped by histories of colonialism. She is also known for her literary approach to ethnographic writing.
View Angela’s research at Academia.edu. See below for a sampling of her published work:
Articles & Essays
“A Struggle for Survival: Inside Mexico City’s Illegal Detox Centers,” LitHub (May 2024)
“How Dion died,” Los Angeles Times (July 2010)
“Listening to Noise,” Anthropology Now (June 2021)
“Reading Righteous Dopefiend with My Mother,” Anthropology Now (October 2010)
“Regeneration: love, drugs and the remaking of Hispano inheritance,” Social Anthropology (2014)
“Serenity: Violence, Inequality, and Recovery on the Edge of Mexico City,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2015)
“The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject,” Cultural Anthropology (2008)
“The Blue Years: An Ethnography of a Prison Archive,” Cultural Anthropology
“The confessional community: Narratives of violence and survival in Mexico City’s anexos,” American Ethnologist (January 2023)
“The Promise: On the Morality of the Marginal and the Illicit,” Ethos (2014)
“The Rainy Season: Toward a Cinematic Ethnography of Crisis and Endurance in Mexico City,” Social Text (March 2017)
Books
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande
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The Way That Leads Among The Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos
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