Who Asked You, Condom Head?
One kind of Mexican street vendor is a foulmouthed clown, whose off-color spiel uses racism, sexism, double-entendre, and nationalist chauvinism to assemble and entertain a crowd and, ultimately, to part its members from their money. Vulgar and highly formulaic, the clown's language reaches its crea...
| Publicado en: | Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 84; no. 1; pp. 235 - 265 |
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George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research
Winter 2011
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