LEADER 05141nam 22011411 450 001 9910818189203321 005 20230428223326.0 010 $a0-520-27677-9 010 $a0-520-95718-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520957183 035 $a(CKB)2550000001138435 035 $a(EBL)1504451 035 $a(OCoLC)862049801 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001047788 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12432985 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001047788 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11159078 035 $a(PQKB)11021889 035 $a(DE-B1597)520788 035 $a(OCoLC)994433544 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520957183 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1504451 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10791348 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL538136 035 $a(OCoLC)865853627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1504451 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001138435 100 $a20130617h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhen I wear my alligator boots $enarco-culture in the US-Mexico borderlands /$fShaylih Muehlmann 210 1$aBerkeley, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2014] 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 0 $aCalifornia Series in Public Anthropology ;$v33 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-520-27678-7 311 08$a1-306-06885-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Life at the Edges of the War on Drugs --$t1. Narco-Wives, Beauty Queens, and a Mother's Bribes --$t2. "When I Wear My Alligator Boots" --$t3. "A Narco without a Corrido Doesn't Exist" --$t4. The View from Cruz's Throne --$t5. Moving the Money When the Bank Accounts Get Full --$t6. "Now They Wear Tennis Shoes" --$tConclusion: Puro pa'delante Mexico --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aWhen 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 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.   606 $aDrug control$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aDrug control$zUnited States 606 $aDrug traffic$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aDrug traffic$zUnited States 606 $aRural poor$zMexico 607 $aMexican-American Border Region$xSocial conditions 610 $aanthropologists. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $aborderlands. 610 $acriminology. 610 $adispossessed. 610 $adrug addiction. 610 $adrug cartels. 610 $adrug mules. 610 $adrug trade. 610 $adrug trafficking. 610 $adrug violence. 610 $adrug workers. 610 $afolklore. 610 $agang violence. 610 $aimprisonment. 610 $ajesus malverde. 610 $amen and women. 610 $amexican culture. 610 $amexico. 610 $amigrant studies. 610 $amilitarization. 610 $amodern culture. 610 $amoney. 610 $anarco culture. 610 $anarcotrafficking. 610 $anortena music. 610 $apublic anthropology. 610 $arural poor. 610 $arural villages. 610 $asociology. 610 $aunited states. 610 $aus borders. 610 $awar on drugs. 615 0$aDrug control 615 0$aDrug control 615 0$aDrug traffic 615 0$aDrug traffic 615 0$aRural poor 676 $a363.450972/1 686 $aSOC002010$aSOC007000$2bisacsh 700 $aMuehlmann$b Shaylih$f1979-$01601014 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818189203321 996 $aWhen I wear my alligator boots$93924420 997 $aUNINA