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When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands
Shaylih Muehlmann
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Paperback. Examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narco-trafficking along the US - Mexico border. This book explores the everyday reality of the drug trade by living alongside its low-level workers: those living at the edges of the violence generated by the militarization of "the war on drugs." Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JHMC; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the "war on drugs": despite the violence and suffering brought on by drug cartels, for the rural poor in Mexico's north, narcotrafficking offers one of the few paths to upward mobility and is a powerful source of cultural meanings and local prestige. In the borderlands, traces of the drug trade are everywhere: from gang violence in cities to drug addiction in rural ... Read more
When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the "war on drugs": despite the violence and suffering brought on by drug cartels, for the rural poor in Mexico's north, narcotrafficking offers one of the few paths to upward mobility and is a powerful source of cultural meanings and local prestige. In the borderlands, traces of the drug trade are everywhere: from gang violence in cities to drug addiction in rural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
255
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
California Series in Public Anthropology
Condition
New
Weight
282g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520276789
SKU
V9780520276789
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About Shaylih Muehlmann
Shaylih Muehlmann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair in Language, Culture and the Environment at the University of British Columbia.
Reviews for When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands
"[Provides] nuanced gendered insights into the traditionally masculine narco universe."
Marilyn Gates New York Journal of Books "[Muehlmann's] gift for narrative provides a powerful analytical lens."
Derek Gregory Geographical Imaginations
Marilyn Gates New York Journal of Books "[Muehlmann's] gift for narrative provides a powerful analytical lens."
Derek Gregory Geographical Imaginations