Presents an ethnographic-based discussion of the concept of citizenship in the United States. The book foregrounds a notion that Mexican migrants who achieve the status of US citizens may continue to be thought of as “Mexicans,” a process that may result in disenchantment with the acquired sta...
My work in Mexico has largely been with the Yucatec Maya of the Yucatan Peninsula, but I have traveled all over Mexico, visiting every state and major region. I am a food anthropologist, so I have sampled everything from ant pupae at a fine upscale restaurant in Guanajuato to wasp larvae ...
frustration, dry holes, and following up on every lead I came across, I got myself a bartending job at an Italian restaurant in Newport Beach and a Mexican restaurant in Santa Ana.