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



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Autore: Muehlmann Shaylih <1979-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: When I wear my alligator boots : narco-culture in the US-Mexico borderlands / / Shaylih Muehlmann Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 363.450972/1
Soggetto topico: Drug control - Mexican-American Border Region
Drug control - United States
Drug traffic - Mexican-American Border Region
Drug traffic - United States
Rural poor - Mexico
Soggetto geografico: Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions
Soggetto non controllato: 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
Classificazione: SOC002010SOC007000
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.  
Titolo autorizzato: When I wear my alligator boots  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-27677-9
0-520-95718-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910818189203321
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