Contraband Cultures : Reframing Smuggling Across Latin America and the Caribbean

• Autore: Cearns Jennifer
• Pubblicazione: London : , : UCL Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Disciplina: 364.1336098
• Soggetto topico: Smuggling; Latin America
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Social life and customs 21st century; Caribbean Area Social life and customs 21st century
• Altri autori: BeachCharles
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contraband Cultures
• ISBN: 9781800087262; 1800087268; 9781800087286; 1800087284
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910886801203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Modern Americas