Regnar Kristensen is currently externally associated with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies of Copenhagen University. His fieldwork on the Santa Muerte cult has spanned many years, specializing in the interface between law enforcement, crime and religion in Mexico.

“This book is remarkable. It is unique in its methodological approach to key themes in current urban anthropology... an outstanding achievement considering the staggering amount of interview transcriptions and the work to turn these ethnographic data into a readable and structured book.” • Wil G. Pansters, Utrecht University“It is something entirely different, enervating, exciting, moving, part soap opera, part ethnography, part family history. It drags you along into Gregoria and her children’s lives and in doing so offers up a stunning insight into the challenges of bringing up a family and surviving in a poor Mexico City barrio.” • Benjamin Smith, University of Warwick

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsCast of CharactersChapter 1. The House in RuinsChapter 2. The Doña and the DonsChapter 3. Walking the Razor’s EdgeChapter 4. InfidelityChapter 5. Earning Respect by Fucking Shit UpChapter 6. JailChapter 7. Calling Down The SaintsChapter 8. ExtortionChapter 9. CancerChapter 10. FlightChapter 11. The futureAfterwordAppendix I: For anthropologists: Editing Dogme EthnographyAppendix II: Manifesto for a Dogme EthnographyGlossaryReferencesIndex

Regnar Kristensen is currently externally associated with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies of Copenhagen University. His fieldwork on the Santa Muerte cult has spanned many years, specializing in the interface between law enforcement, crime and religion in Mexico.

“This book is remarkable. It is unique in its methodological approach to key themes in current urban anthropology... an outstanding achievement considering the staggering amount of interview transcriptions and the work to turn these ethnographic data into a readable and structured book.” • Wil G. Pansters, Utrecht University“It is something entirely different, enervating, exciting, moving, part soap opera, part ethnography, part family history. It drags you along into Gregoria and her children’s lives and in doing so offers up a stunning insight into the challenges of bringing up a family and surviving in a poor Mexico City barrio.” • Benjamin Smith, University of Warwick

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsCast of CharactersChapter 1. The House in RuinsChapter 2. The Doña and the DonsChapter 3. Walking the Razor’s EdgeChapter 4. InfidelityChapter 5. Earning Respect by Fucking Shit UpChapter 6. JailChapter 7. Calling Down The SaintsChapter 8. ExtortionChapter 9. CancerChapter 10. FlightChapter 11. The futureAfterwordAppendix I: For anthropologists: Editing Dogme EthnographyAppendix II: Manifesto for a Dogme EthnographyGlossaryReferencesIndex

Regnar Kristensen is currently externally associated with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies of Copenhagen University. His fieldwork on the Santa Muerte cult has spanned many years, specializing in the interface between law enforcement, crime and religion in Mexico.

“This book is remarkable. It is unique in its methodological approach to key themes in current urban anthropology... an outstanding achievement considering the staggering amount of interview transcriptions and the work to turn these ethnographic data into a readable and structured book.” • Wil G. Pansters, Utrecht University“It is something entirely different, enervating, exciting, moving, part soap opera, part ethnography, part family history. It drags you along into Gregoria and her children’s lives and in doing so offers up a stunning insight into the challenges of bringing up a family and surviving in a poor Mexico City barrio.” • Benjamin Smith, University of Warwick

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsCast of CharactersChapter 1. The House in RuinsChapter 2. The Doña and the DonsChapter 3. Walking the Razor’s EdgeChapter 4. InfidelityChapter 5. Earning Respect by Fucking Shit UpChapter 6. JailChapter 7. Calling Down The SaintsChapter 8. ExtortionChapter 9. CancerChapter 10. FlightChapter 11. The futureAfterwordAppendix I: For anthropologists: Editing Dogme EthnographyAppendix II: Manifesto for a Dogme EthnographyGlossaryReferencesIndex