Wil G. Pansters

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Wil G. Pansters is a professor of social and political anthropology of Latin America at Utrecht University. He is the editor of Violence, Coercion and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur and La Santa Muerte in Mexico: History, Devotion, and Society (UNM Press).

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Books by Wil G. Pansters

Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Edited by Wil G. Pansters and Benjamin T. Smith

This work brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations. While the US and Mexican governments developed anti-drug discourses and policies, which criminalized both high-profile traffickers and small-time ...

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La Santa Muerte in Mexico

History, Devotion, and Society

Edited by Wil G. Pansters

This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in people's daily lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with illicit activities.

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