When I wear my alligator boots : narco-culture in the US-Mexico borderlands /

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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 sufferi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Muehlmann, Shaylih, 1979-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:California Series in Public Anthropology ; 33
Subjects:
Drug control > Mexican-American Border Region.
Drug control > United States.
Drug traffic > Mexican-American Border Region.
Drug traffic > United States.
Rural poor > Mexico.
Lutte antidrogue > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis.
Drogues > Trafic > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Drogues > Trafic > États-Unis.
Pauvres en milieu rural > Mexique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Drug control
Drug traffic
Rural poor
Social conditions
Grenze
Grenzgebiet
Drogenhandel
Drogenkriminalität
Gewalt
Gefängnis
Armut
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Mexico
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
United States
USA
Mexiko
anthropologists.
anthropology.
borderlands.
criminology.
dispossessed.
drug addiction.
drug cartels.
drug mules.
drug trade.
drug trafficking.
drug violence.
drug workers.
folklore.
gang violence.
imprisonment.
jesus malverde.
men and women.
mexican culture.
mexico.
migrant studies.
militarization.
modern culture.
money.
narco culture.
narcotrafficking.
nortena music.
public anthropology.
rural poor.
rural villages.
sociology.
united states.
us borders.
war on drugs.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; When I Wear My Alligator Boots; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Life at the Edges of the War on Drugs; 1. Narco-Wives, Beauty Queens, and a Mother's Bribes; 2. "When I Wear My Alligator Boots"; 3. "A Narco without a Corrido Doesn't Exist"; 4. The View from Cruz's Throne; 5. Moving the Money When the Bank Accounts Get Full; 6. "Now They Wear Tennis Shoes"; Conclusion: Puro pa'delante Mexico; Notes; References; Index.

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