| Series |
California series in public anthropology ; 57
California series in public anthropology ; 57. ^A520608
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| Contents |
The workshop -- Shape of wounds -- Recruited -- Arming the State -- With a side of beans -- Collateral damage -- Ghost highway -- The last letter -- The camp -- The player -- Poisoned city -- Fallen sovereigns -- Blurred lines -- Brothers -- Revenge -- BMG -- Homefront -- Caged -- Attitude -- Metal afterlives -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract |
"Guns are relational: they can be tools of violence or of protection. Bullets injure individuals and communities, creating collective damage. In the United States, gun violence has reached alarming levels, but the effects of firearms sold in this country don't stop at its borders. American guns have torn the social fabric of Mexican society in ways that have entangled the lives of citizens on both sides of the border-Mexicans and Americans-in a vicious circle of violence. While migrants and refugees are fleeing north, seeking safety in the United States, Exit Wounds follows the guns going south, from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico. Through stories of people who live and work with guns on both sides of the border and either side of the law-a businessman who smuggles guns, a girl who becomes a trained assassin, two federal agents who try to stop gun traffickers, a journalist reporting on organized crime-the book grapples with US complicity in violence south of the border and examines the impact of American guns on both countries"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Jusionyte, Ieva, 1983- Exit wounds Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520395961 |
| LCCN | 2023028617 |
| ISBN | 9780520395954 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0520395956 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
