On the Importance of Wolves

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2435629
AutoresKevin Lewis O’neill (0000-0001-6880-9146, University of Toronto, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume33
Fascículo3
Páginas499-520
Data de publicação2018-08-21
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCultural Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360
EditoraAmerican Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.14506/ca33.3.09
OpenAlexW2888332810
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas25

What would it mean for pastoralism to be a matter of wolves rather than sheep? Across Guatemala City, Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers provide one possible answer. These are onetime factories and apartment buildings that have been renovated for rehabilitation with razor wire and steel bars. Largely unregulated, these centers keep pace with Guatemala's growing rapprochement with illicit drugs by holding drug users (often against their will) for months, sometimes for years. They also warehouse the mentally ill, whom the faithful call wolves (lobos). While Pentecostals understand these wolves as incapable of governing themselves, a mix of faith and pharmaceuticals has made this otherwise surplus population central to the management of populations. Providing a provocative counterexample to celebrated ethnographies that tell terrible tales of societies that let die rather than make live, this essay details how and to what effect pastors actively acquire rather than abandon these so-called wolves

Apartment · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Ethnology · Faith · Geography · Livestock · Pace · Pastoralism · Political science · Population · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Demography · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development