Anthropology 4400E Chapter Notes - Chapter introduction: North American Free Trade Agreement, Participant Observation, Open Graves
8 Apr 2018
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Anthro 4400 summary on introduction in the land of open graves. Jason deleon conducting ethnographic fieldwork in the arizona-us border summary of introduction of book: Deportees in nogales, mex are easy to spot - their backpacks, exhausted features, salt rings under their pits, torn sneakers etc. Even after going through incredible challenges and being deported, many of them keep trying. The ethnographer came into contact with his rst dead person the rst day on the job. He remembers the ies laying eggs on him the most. This book is about the violence and death that border crossers face on a daily basis trying to enter the us. They do this by trying to walk across the vast sonoran desert of arizona. In obama era, 2 million people were deported. He seeks to give voices to these undocumented migrants as they are rarely heard. The us is simultaneously afraid and intrigued by its southern border.
