"In sum, Edberg's is a valuable contribution to an emerging, promising, and rich
interdisciplinary field." - Journal of
Latin American Anthropology"This is a brilliant study on a subject that since the 1970s has riveted national and international attention: the exploits of those men and women who traffic in drugs... The work is very original and offers new theoretical
paradigms for both understanding the corrido as an artistic cultural form and understanding a people through this expressive artistic form." - Maria Herrera-Sobek, Acting Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara Since the late 1970s, a new folk hero has risen to prominence in the…
