An anthropological work about this region that included its author controversially purchasing and killing five pigs is complemented by a series of Jason Wells photographs. Anthropologists who worked in this region include Josiah Heyman and Michael Kearney, whose work Reconceptualizing the Peasantry posited a new form of indigeneity. Abandoned belongings from this region like black-painted gallon jugs are documented in a project by Jason de León, who wrote about Memo and Lucho’s experiences in this region in his book The Land of (*) Open Graves. A semi-autobiographical book that describes eight varieties of languages spoken in this region likens it to an “open [emphasize] wound.” That code-switching work titled for this region analogizes the rejection of binaries to “entering into the serpent” and aims at a “new consciousness.” For 10 points, name this region that is the subject of Gloria Anzaldúa’s La Frontera. ■END■
ANSWER: US-Mexico borderlands [accept equivalent answers that refer to the border between the United States of America and Mexico; prompt on Mexico; prompt on United States; prompt on “the border” or “borderlands” with “which one?”; prompt on La Frontera with “what specific region does that title refer to?”]
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