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UNINA9910453757803321 |
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Muehlmann Shaylih <1979-> |
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When I wear my alligator boots : narco-culture in the US-Mexico borderlands / / Shaylih Muehlmann |
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Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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0-520-27677-9 |
0-520-95718-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Collana |
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California Series in Public Anthropology ; ; 33 |
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Drug control - Mexican-American Border Region |
Drug control - United States |
Drug traffic - Mexican-American Border Region |
Drug traffic - United States |
Rural poor - Mexico |
Electronic books. |
Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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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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 |
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borderlands, traces of the drug trade are everywhere: from gang violence in cities to drug addiction in rural villages, from the vibrant folklore popularized in the narco-corridos of Norteña music to the icon of Jesús Malverde, the "patron saint" of narcos, tucked beneath the shirts of local people. In When I Wear My Alligator Boots, the author explores the everyday reality of the drug trade by living alongside its low-level workers, who live at the edges of the violence generated by the militarization of the war on drugs. Rather than telling the story of the powerful cartel leaders, the book focuses on the women who occasionally make their sandwiches, the low-level businessmen who launder their money, the addicts who consume their products, the mules who carry their money and drugs across borders, and the men and women who serve out prison sentences when their bosses' operations go awry. |
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UNINA9910144654903321 |
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Brush border membranes [[electronic resource]] |
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1-280-78402-4 |
9786613694416 |
0-470-72076-X |
0-470-71846-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; v. 95 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PorterRuth |
CollinsGeralyn M |
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Cell membranes |
Cell physiology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Editors: Ruth Porter (Organizer) and Geralyn M. Collins. |
Proceedings of Symposium on: Brush border membranes held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 8-10 June 1982. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Brush border membranes; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Introductory remarks on the brush border; Microvillar endopeptidase, an enzyme with special topological features and a wide distribution; Discussion; Aminopeptidases and proteolipids of intestinal brush border; Discussion; Structure of microvillar enzymes in different phases of their life cycles; Discussion; Specific labelling of the hydrophobic domain of rat renal y-glutamyl transferase; Discussion; Biosynthesis and assembly of the largest and major intrinsic polypeptide of the small intestinal brush borders; Discussion |
Use of monoclonal antibodies in the study of intestinal structure and function Discussion; Biosynthesis and transport of plasma membrane glyco- proteins in the rat intestinal epithelial cell: studies with sucrase- isomaltase; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION I Biosynthesis and assembly of brush border proteins: (i) some co-translational models for protein insertion into membranes; molecular sizes of brush border enzymes during assembly; Distribution of enteropeptidase and aminopeptidase to non-brush border sites; General functions of the enterocyte |
Molecular architecture of the microvillus cytoskeleton Discussion; Structure of human placental microvilli; Discussion; Regulation of cytoskeletal structure and contractility in the brush border; Discussion; Characterization of membrane glycoproteins involved in attachment of microfilaments to the microvillar membrane; Discussion; Structural and functional relationship between the membrane and the cytoskeleton in brush border microvilli; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION II A pathological condition due to congenital disorganization of the brush border |
Conformational changes in the a-subunit, and cation transport by Na+, K+-ATPase Discussion; Properties of immunoglobulin G-Fc receptors from neonatal rat intestinal brush borders; Immunoglobulin G receptors of intestinal brush borders from neonatal rats; Discussion after the preceding two papers; Cotransport systems in the brush border membrane of the human placenta; Discussion; GENERAL DISCUSSION III Cytoskeleton and membrane-cytoskeleton interactions; The importance of structure for understanding the biosynthetic process; Future advances in study of brush border cytoskeleton |
Photo-affinity labeling to identify components of the neutral amino acid carrier in the intestinal microvillar membrane Chairman's closing remarks; Index to contributors; Subject index |
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