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.” (-5[1])That code-switching work (10[1])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■ (0[1])