%0 Journal Article %T Prison Subculture, Habitus and Adaptation; Tattooing in the Islas Marías, a Mexican Penal Colony %A Nelson Eduardo Alvarez Alvarez Licona %A Mar¨ªa de la Luz Sevilla Gonz¨¢lez %J Advances in Anthropology %P 76-98 %@ 2163-9361 %D 2021 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/aa.2021.111007 %X The Islas Mar¨ªas are an archipelago formed by three islands and one islet, Mar¨ªa Madre, Mar¨ªa Magdalena, Mar¨ªa Cleofas and the islet San Juanico, which are in the Pacific Ocean, 120 kilometers from the state of Nayarit in Mexico. Since 1905, the Islas Mar¨ªas Federal Penal Colony was installed on the Isla Mar¨ªa Madre as 9 camps around the island and one more in the center and ceased to be a penal colony in the year 2020. Life in this institution was regulated by the regulations of the institution and by the prison subculture, which governed the interaction between the inmates. In this type of institution, life took place between two perfectly established groups: the inmates (prisoners) and the staff (employees of the institution). The prison subculture, as a system regulating life among the prisoners, is explained to the extent that it is based on unformulated social agreements that are based on self-interest. These forms of belonging, built from the ¡°we¡±, in turn generate mechanisms of self-support that reinforce attitudes and behaviors. I propose that the practices that structure the prison subculture can be summarized as 1) Not denouncing. 2) Do not interfere in the affairs of others. 3) Showing courage at a given time. 4) In the male sexual character, which is present in the interaction between the inmates. In the Islas Mar¨ªas, practices such as tattoos were carried out, which although prohibited by the institution¡¯s regulations, tattooing is very common in this place and is carried out in congruence with the prison subculture, being a practice that can be observed as a ¡°habitus¡±, understood as a practice that has the limits of its own conditions of production and of being the result of homologous practices, not being an obligatory practice, nor instituted, that is explained from conditioning stimuli that only act under the condition of finding again the already conditioned agents. %K Penal Colony %K Prison Subculture %K Habits %K Tattoos %K Knowing How to Throw Time %K Give and Take %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=107442