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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Forty percent of Nicaragua's population call themselves Sandinista,
but sincethe 1980s the meaning of what a Sandinista is has changed.
This book attemptsto explain what Sandinismo meant in the past and
what it is now.
Johannes Wilm, an organizer and activist from Oslo, Norway, goes
off to live in and study Douglas, AZ, a border town to Mexico, for
half a year. At first sight, Douglas looks like nothing but a run
down company town - after the Phelps Dodge smelter left in the
1980s. Interestingly though, Wilm discovers that old modes of
social stratification disappeared together with the jobs. This book
has to be seen as a tribute to the progressive sides of the
lumpenproletariat. "This is a well written, experience-near
ethnography of marginality in every sense of the word: Douglas is
literally on the margins between the USA and Mexico, it is
geographically marginal, economically marginal and culturally
marginal in the US context. Wilm weaves a convincing and compelling
picture of the precarious, reckless and often paradoxical lives led
by people in Douglas." --Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of
Social Anthropology (Oslo/Amsterdam)
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