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Gang Wars of Central America: What Anthropologists Have to Say

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LevensonDeborah T., Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index, 200 pp.; hardcover $84.95, paperback $23.95.
O’NeillKevin Lewis, Secure the Soul: Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 304 pp.; hardcover $85, paperback $29.95, ebook $29.95.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Stoll
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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , Winter 2017 , pp. 121 - 131
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