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DOI: 10.1177/0921374006064388 A Northern New Mexican ‘Fix’Shooting up and Coming down in the Greater Española Valley, New MexicoColorado College, USA Sandwiched between the artist colonies and tourist centers of Santa Fe and Taos, northern New Mexico's greater EspaÒola Valley is a New Mexican Hispanic or Nuevomexicano enclave and often considered a bastion of traditional Nuevomexicano culture. Despite the valley's location, this area remains off the artist and tourist track. Moreover, regional and national media sources report that the valley is a site of widespread heroin use. This article focuses on the act of using drugs in a place elaborately scripted by discourses that idealize Nuevomexicano traditional culture. In particular, this article (1) unpacks the conceptualization of culture as a cure for the problems that affect the community, (2) situates the study of drug use in EspaÒola in a wider ethnographic context of drug use, and (3) suggests that drug use provides a momentary ‘fix’ that both reconciles and manifests the contradictions of many Nuevomexicanos’ lived experiences.
Key Words: Chicana/o • drug use • heroin • identity formation • New Mexico
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