ANTH 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Day Labor, Maquiladora, Participant Observation
16 Sep 2016
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The title comes from a time when the narrator sees a past friend who was working a low wage job selling drugs in the future, while wearing alligator boots. Its how you tell a real narcotraficante (intro: pg. He wanted to avoid drug wars all together, but the drug topic was an every day conversation he was spoken to about (intro: pg. Prohibition efforts: diagonal ditches, and military lookouts (intro: pg. Point of book= tell the story of rural people living in the u. s. -mexico borderlands who are recruited to work in the lowest echelons of the drug trade, as burreros (mules) and low-level narcotraficantes. They live at the edges of the war on drugs, where both the trade and violence and the hope it generates nonetheless permeate everyday life. Focus= the lives of ordinary people working and living at the fringes of the macro- economy. (intro: pg.
