The Mexican-US Border: The Making of an Anthropology of Borderlands
Author(s)
Alvarez, Robert R. Jr.
Abstract
A study of anthropology of borderlands with reference to the Mexican-US border reveals the contradiction, paradox, difference, and struggle for power and domination in current international capitalism and nation states as expressed in local-level practices. The borderlands can act as a basis to redraw the conceptual division of community and cultural region to bring people closer. Concepts of early ethnography and applied anthropology of border regions are discussed, along with issues of reterritorialized communities, with Mexican migration serving as example.
