Description
Book Synopsis The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. The people entrenched in the violent communities that the Rosales belong to have been discussed, condemned, analyzed, joked about and cheered, but rarely have they been seriously listened to. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.
Trade Review “This book is remarkable. It is unique in its methodological approach to key themes in current urban anthropology... an outstanding achievement considering the staggering amount of interview transcriptions and the work to turn these ethnographic data into a readable and structured book.” • Wil G. Pansters, Utrecht University
“It is something entirely different, enervating, exciting, moving, part soap opera, part ethnography, part family history. It drags you along into Gregoria and her children’s lives and in doing so offers up a stunning insight into the challenges of bringing up a family and surviving in a poor Mexico City barrio.” • Benjamin Smith, University of Warwick
Table of Contents Preface
Acknowledgements
Cast of Characters
Chapter 1. The House in Ruins
Chapter 2. The Doña and the Dons
Chapter 3. Walking the Razor’s Edge
Chapter 4. Infidelity
Chapter 5. Earning Respect by Fucking Shit Up
Chapter 6. Jail
Chapter 7. Calling Down The Saints
Chapter 8. Extortion
Chapter 9. Cancer
Chapter 10. Flight
Chapter 11. The future
Afterword
Appendix I: For anthropologists: Editing Dogme Ethnography
Appendix II: Manifesto for a Dogme Ethnography
Glossary
References
Index
