![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | On the Margins -- US Americans in a border town to Mexico - Johannes Wilm
Johannes Wilm, organizer, activist and social anthropologist from Oslo, Norway, goes off to live in and study Douglas, AZ, a border town to Mexico, for half a year. At first sight, Douglas looks like nothing more than a run down company town -- after the Phelps Dodge smelter left in the 1980s. Interestingly though, Wilm discovers that old modes of social stratification disappeared together with the jobs...
Keywords: anthropology; border; Spanglish; Mexico; USA; United States; Marxism; Arizona; Sonora; frontier; Agua Prieta; Douglas; hobo; smuggling; crime; corruption; drugs; Douglas (Ariz.) -- Social conditions; Marginality, Social -- Arizona -- Douglas
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