The Elegiac addict: History, chronicity, and the melancholic subject

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 718-746

  Garcia, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Chronicity; Melancholy; Mourning

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349090584     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00024.x     Document Type: Article

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