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.

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论狼的重要性

放牧是狼而不是羊，这意味着什么？在危地马拉市，五旬节派毒品康复中心提供了一种可能的答案。这些曾经是工厂和公寓楼，已经过翻修，可使用剃须刀丝和钢筋进行修复。这些中心在很大程度上不受监管，它们通过将吸毒者（经常违背他们的意愿）维持几个月（有时长达数年）来跟上危地马拉与非法毒品的和睦关系。他们还储存精神病患者，他们忠实地称呼他们为狼。五旬节派认为这些狼无力治理自己，但信仰和制药的结合使原本过剩的人口成为人口管理的中心。