Gangster in guerilla face: A transnational mirror of production between the USA and El Salvador

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-57

  Zilberg, Elana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; Dialectical image; Gang and state violence; Globalization; Mimesis; Nationalism; Representation politics of memory; Terrorism; Zero tolerance policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 35848954141     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499607074289     Document Type: Review

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