Mar 26
Dear ethnographers, here’s an article from today’s Miami New Times about the pirate hog farms of Hialeah (yes, the Special Period traveled north). You might enjoy the vignette about killing the pig with an old Soviet-era gun, or the part about neighbors accusing each other of police informants… (la historia no tiene desperdicio)
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March 26th, 2009 at 4:37 pm |
Thanks for posting this; I loved the line: “In Cuba, we don’t have Sedano’s and we don’t have Publix. And nobody gets sick from buying a pig from a farm.”
March 26th, 2009 at 5:34 pm |
I wonder if there is anyone doing ethnographic fieldwork in Hialeah… (on topics other than religion)