Abstract
Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón launched the war ondrugs in 2006 as a strategy to dismantle vast drug trafficking networks. That war has cost the lives of thousands of people, many of whom are buried in mass graves. By focusing on a single day in the search for bodies, this ethnography describes and analyzes one of the brutal aftereffects of this security strategy. One key topic is the different ways in which actors stake out the rights of the lifeless bodies in these graves, from the mothers who dig into the earth to find tesoros(treasures) to the state apparatus that attempts to control the process.
Publisher
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social
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