"Corn is food, not contraband": The right to "free trade" at the Mexico-Guatemala border

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 716-734

  Galemba, Rebecca B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraband; Corn; Free Trade; Guatemala; Mexico; Neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867789987     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01391.x     Document Type: Article

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