An Ethnographic Poetics of Placed-and-Found Objects and Cultural Memory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Residents of the region just north of the U.S.-Mexico border experience migration and smuggling activities through constantly changing found objects on the desert landscape--a pair of shoes neatly arranged on a trail; a cross hung in a tree; a can of food balanced on a rock. Consideration of some fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seibert, David
Other Authors: Sheridan, Thomas E.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2013
Subjects:
US
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311534