“There is a deadly earnestness with which children take up whatever rules have been established for a particular context.”
Elizabeth Ferry
Elizabeth Ferry is professor of anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of Not Ours Alone (Columbia University Press, 2005); Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexican Border (Indiana University Press, 2013); and, with Stephen Ferry, La Batea (Red Hook Publications, 2017). 
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“People rise through the ranks and are allowed to hide torture in plain sight because they become complicit.”
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Waste, Value, and Environmental Racism in the Southwest
On August 5, 2015, a team contracted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate a leak at the Gold King mine in Silverton, Colorado, accidentally breached the mine, sending three ...