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Shaylih Muehlmann was born in the most densely populated region of Canada - southwestern Ontario. She comes from a family of songwriters, dogs, philosophers, teachers and poets. She “grew up” between stretches of life spent in Canada, rural Maine and the desert north of Mexico. Her first book "Where the River Ends" is about life at the end of the Colorado River, where the river no longer reaches the sea. Her second book "When I Wear My Alligator Boots" is about narco-culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and the devastating affects of the “war on drugs.”

Shaylih holds a Canada Research Chair in Language, Culture and the Environment at the University of British Columbia and has won various awards for her work as an anthropologist including ...more

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	When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the US-Mexico Borderlands 4.27 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the River Ends: Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene by Kregg Hetherington (Editor), Nikhil Anand (Contributor), Andrea Ballestero (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico's Disappeared in the War on Drugs (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 58) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared in the War on Drugs (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 58) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

tags: fluency, foreign, language

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