Abstract

ROBLEDO SILVESTRE, Carolina. Looking for el Pozolero's Traces: Identity and Liminal Condition in the War on Drug's Disappearances. Frontera norte [online]. 2014, vol.26, n.52, pp.5-23. ISSN 2594-0260.

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the power of symbolic ritual actions performed by relatives of missing persons on the land of el Pozolero, to give them a place in the social world. The construction of community mourning is analyzed in the margins of social structure (liminality), and the process by which it provides new frameworks to interpret and make sense of disappearances in the War on Drugs.

Keywords : disappearences; liminality; mourning; Tijuana; Mexico.

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