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Guillermina Gina N��ez-Mchiri is assistant professor of anthropology at University of Texas, El Paso and Josiah Heyman is professor and chair of anthropology at the same institution. A version of this paper was presented at the 2006 Lineae Terrarum conference in Ciudad Juarez/ El Paso/Las Cruces. We thank the audience at that conference for their useful suggestions. We also thank Victor Talavera. Carta Alvarado, and Nuria Homedes for their collaboration on related research. Dr. N��ez-Mchiri would also like to acknowledge the Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center, as well as support from a US MEXUS Dissertation Grant at the University of California, Riverside. The authors are responsible for all errors of fact and interpretation.