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Passing: An Ethnography of Status, Self and the Public in a Mexican Border City

出版	University of Chicago, Division of the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, 2009
ISBN	11093157409781109315745
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_It4AQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋But at the border, the public takes shape entirely in relation to US state recognition, as its categories ground social status in general: the public of rational debate imagines itself as documented, in possession of papers to cross the border legally, while the public of hearsay is paradigmatically undocumented. Here, the conundrums facing the articulation of the national "we" are brought to a peak, crystallized in the strange, ambivalent and thoroughly quotidian relation to the US and its state. In Tijuana, practices of passing the border literally and of passing in public for that which one is not are intimately intertwined. These two kinds of 'passing' come together most forcefully in the interview for the US nonimmigrant tourist visa, which, I argue, is key to the territorialized Mexican citizenship that, however contradictorily, anchors the documented public of rational debate. Practices of 'passing' offer a unique perspective on the relation between forms of public communication, processes of state recognition, socioeconomic status and how one manages recognition of it, and long-term projects of self-making---questions that are central not just to the contemporary border, but to any understanding of the public in Mexico or beyond.