Street Code: Working Out How Symbolic Artifacts and Features Are Used to Traffic Drugs
Author(s): Walter Dodd
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Sixteen years of ethnoarchaeological observation and collection has resulted in the creation of a massive data set relating to ongoing drug sales in an urban context. Hundreds of thousands of “trash” items have been gathered for study. They display strong repetitive patterning in their content and testify to the organized complexity of everyday dealing. A diverse array of warranted evidence from material culture inventories, slang words and phrases, subcultural behaviors, and rehab interviews is advanced to construct a preliminary model of trafficking dynamics.
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Street Code: Working Out How Symbolic Artifacts and Features Are Used to Traffic Drugs. Walter Dodd. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499928)
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Keywords
General
Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology
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Materiality
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symbolism
Geographic Keywords
North America: California and Great Basin
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.189; min lat: 31.803 ; max long: -105.469; max lat: 43.58 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 39758.0