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Author Pine, Jason, author.

Title The alchemy of meth : a decomposition / Jason Pine
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 203 pages)
Contents Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Author's Note -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Alchemy of Meth -- Dramatis Personae -- Jason -- Exploded View -- Christian and Jason -- Ray and Jason -- January -- Joseph and Jason -- Camille -- Lori -- Jeffrey, Narc -- Christian -- Ray -- Joseph -- Camille -- February -- Lori -- Kat, Public Defender -- The Hunting of the Greene Lyon -- Christian -- Anonymous -- Jason -- Christian -- Ray -- Joseph -- March -- Camille -- John, Pastor -- Lori -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Dan, Narc -- Christian -- April -- Ray
Joseph -- Roger Bacon, Alchemist -- Camille -- Muriatic Acid -- Lori -- Nicole Curtis, the Rehab Addict -- Jason -- Debra -- Christian -- May -- Ray -- Joseph -- Roger Bacon, Alchemist -- Camille -- Debra -- Lori -- Jake, Narc -- The Time of Mortals -- Jason -- Thomas, Shire Executive -- Adderall -- Monster Energy -- June -- Christian -- Ray -- Joseph -- Lawrence, Startup Pharma Exec -- Camille -- July -- Lori -- Dan, Narc -- Roger Bacon, Alchemist -- Debra -- Jason -- Hortulanus, Alchemist -- Thomas, Shire Executive -- Tweaker -- Christian -- Joseph -- Camille -- Lori -- August -- Jason
Tweaker Projects -- Lawrence, Startup Pharma Exec -- September -- Jason -- Ray -- Meth = Sorcery -- Design Noir -- Christian -- Joseph -- Tammy and Camille -- Anonymous -- Ray -- Allegory -- Jason -- Lawrence, Startup Pharma Exec -- Paracelsus, Alchemist -- October -- Jason -- Jason and Joseph -- November -- Jason -- Camille -- Jason and Ray -- Joseph and Jason -- Isaiah 43:2 -- Christian -- Camille -- Jason -- Christian and Jason -- A Cry for Mercy (Psalm 51) -- Ray and Jason -- Christian -- Meth = Sorcery -- Bill, Narc -- The Tin Woodman -- Zephrex-D -- The Tin Woodman -- The Tin Woodman
Chemæra -- December -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Bio
Summary "This manuscript is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Missouri between 2005-2013. Pine spent time with meth cooks, recovery professionals, pastors, and narcotics agents. At the center of this story are the meth cooks themselves, and Pine's ethnography details their daily struggles. Beginning in the center of an exploded meth lab, Pine's performative, narrative-based work explores meth cooks as modern-day alchemists, combining and exploding again the everyday objects of late capitalism, walking the fine lines (and obviously crossing them) between illegal and legal amphetamines, pulling everyday objects like lighter fluids, frying pans, and kitchen matches into the realm of illegality"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2022)
Subject Methamphetamine abuse -- Social aspects -- Missouri
Drug addicts -- Missouri -- Social conditions
Drug addicts -- Material culture -- Missouri
Ethnology -- Missouri
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Drug addicts -- Social conditions
Ethnology
Missouri
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019981208
ISBN 9781452961279
1452961271
9781452961262
1452961263