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Record Nr.

UNINA9910886801203321

Autore

Cearns Jennifer

Titolo

Contraband Cultures : Reframing Smuggling Across Latin America and the Caribbean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781800087262

1800087268

9781800087286

1800087284

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages)

Collana

Modern Americas Series

Altri autori (Persone)

BeachCharles

Disciplina

364.1336098

Soggetti

Smuggling

Latin America

Latin America Social life and customs 21st century

Caribbean Area Social life and customs 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: contraband as culture, culture as contraband --   From onions to culture: what is contraband? --   The invention of contraband --   The sovereign centre and the contraband margins --   Countering contraband --   Communities through contraband --   Overview of the volume --   Note --   References -- 1 ‘Born in this abominable sin’: contraband trade in colonial Spanish America --   ‘A crime of treason, divine and human’: religion and contraband to 1660 --   Circum-Caribbean witchcraft: a contraband culture --   Conclusion --   Note --   References -- 2 ‘Yo siempre quise ser bichote’ in ‘P FKN R’: Bad Bunny and the representation of Puerto Rican narcoculture in the gore capitalism era --   Drug trafficking, narcoculture and gore capitalism as an everyday occurrence --   A brief context of recent Puerto Rico --   An overview of Bad Bunny --   ‘Being a critter’ in P FKN R: an ethnography of Puerto Rico in gore capitalism --   Conclusion --  



Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

Contraband Cultures presents narratives, representations, practices and imaginaries of smuggling and extra-legal or informal circulation practices, across and between the Latin American region (including the Caribbean) and its diasporas.