The Cultural Effects of the Narcoeconomy in Rural Mexico

This essay describes the cultural effects of drug trafficking on a town in rural Mexico. A variety of ethnographic scenes reveal the rapidly changing social imagination as new forms of consumption create new opportunities for identity formation. However, because these new consumer forms are expensiv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James H. McDonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lindenwood University 2009-11-01
Series:Journal of International and Global Studies
Online Access:http://www.lindenwood.edu/jigs/docs/volume1Issue1/essays/1-29.pdf