Tales from the Desert Borderland

Lawrence J. Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Maynooth University, Ireland. The author of classic ethnographies Dutchmen on the Bay and Occasions of Faith, Taylor has been working and writing on the US/Mexico border since the mid-1990s, publishing first The Road to Mexico (1997), followed by the prize-winning account of liminal border lives, Tunnel Kids (2001) and Ambos Nogales: Intimate Portraits of the US/Mexico Border  (2002). As in this volume, each of these books was produced in collaboration with artist Maeve Hickey.

• Chapter 1: Machaca.- Chapter 2: Hot Springs.- Chapter 3: Love and Lettuce .- Chapter 4: NAFTA.- Chapter 5: Endangered Species.- Chapter 6: Burying Sheila Cassidy.- Chapter 7: Ranch Rescue.- Chapter 8: The Tunnel.