{"product_id":"the-us-mexico-transborder-region-carlos-g-vlez-ib-ez-9780816535156","title":"The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region\u003c\/i\u003e presents advanced anthropological theorizing of culture in an important regional setting. Not a static entity, the transborder region is peopled by ever-changing groups who face the challenges of social inequality: political enforcement of privilege, economic subordination of indigenous communities, and organized resistance to domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book, influenced by the work of Eric Wolf and senior editor Carlos G. V lez-Ib  ez, centers on the greater Mexican North\/U.S. Southwest, although the geographic range extends farther. This tradition, like other transborder approaches, attends to complex and fluid cultural and linguistic processes, going beyond the classical modern anthropological vision of one people, one culture, one language. With respect to recent approaches, however, it is more deeply social, focusing on vertical relations of power and horizontal bonds of mutuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV lez-Ib  ez and Heyman envision this region as involving diverse and unequal social groups in dynamic motion over thousands of years. Thus the historical interaction of the U.S.-Mexico border, however massively unequal and powerful, is only the most recent manifestation of this longer history and common ecology. Contributors emphasize the dynamic \"transborder\" quality--conflicts, resistance, slanting, displacements, and persistence--in order to combine a critical perspective on unequal power relations with a questioning perspective on claims to bounded simplicity and perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is notable for its high degree of connection across the various chapters, strengthened by internal syntheses from notable border scholars, including Robert R. Alvarez and Alejandro Lugo. In the final section, Judith Freidenberg draws general lessons from particular case studies, summarizing that \"access to valued scarce resources prompts the erection of human differences that get solidified into borders,\" dividing and limiting, engendering vulnerabilities and marginalizing some people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a time when understanding the U.S.-Mexico border is more important than ever, this volume offers a critical anthropological and historical approach to working in transborder regions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmado Alarc n \u003cbr\u003e Robert R.  lvarez \u003cbr\u003e Miguel D az-Barriga \u003cbr\u003e Margaret E. Dorsey \u003cbr\u003e Judith Freidenberg \u003cbr\u003e Ruth Gomberg-Mu oz \u003cbr\u003e James Greenberg \u003cbr\u003e Josiah Heyman \u003cbr\u003e Jane H. Hill \u003cbr\u003e Sarah Horton \u003cbr\u003e Alejandro Lugo \u003cbr\u003e Luminiţa-Anda Mandache \u003cbr\u003e Corina Marrufo \u003cbr\u003e Guillermina Gina N  ez-Mchiri \u003cbr\u003e Anna Ochoa O'Leary \u003cbr\u003e Luis F. B. Plascencia \u003cbr\u003e Lucero Radonic \u003cbr\u003e Diana Riviera \u003cbr\u003e Thomas E. Sheridan \u003cbr\u003e Kathleen Staudt \u003cbr\u003e Carlos G. V lez-Ib  ez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carlos G. V駘ez-Ib碵ez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816535159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816535156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Carlos G. V駘ez-Ib碵ez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44829791518975,"sku":"9780816535156","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a0f96b3-cbb7-44ff-bca7-b58405afb09a.jpg?v=1708451657","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-us-mexico-transborder-region-carlos-g-vlez-ib-ez-9780816535156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}