ISBN: 9780252071676

For more than twenty years, Linda J. Seligmann walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets in Cuzco's … Mehr…

For more than twenty years, Linda J. Seligmann walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets in Cuzco's Andean highlands. Her combination of ethnographic analysis, insightful and human vignettes, and superb photographs offers a humane yet incisive portrait of the women's lives against the backdrop of globalization and other powerful forces. In Peruvian Street Lives, Seligmann argues that the sometimes invisible and informal economic, social, and political networks market women establish may appear disorderly and chaotic, but in fact often keep dysfunctional economies and corrupt bureaucracies from utterly destroying the ability of citizens to survive from day to day. Seligmann asks why the constructive efforts of market women to make a living provoke such negative social perceptions from some members of Peruvian society, who see them as symbols and actual catalysts of social disorder. At the same time, Seligmann shows how market women eke out a living, combat discrimination, and transgress racial and gender ideologies within the rich and expressive cultural traditions they have developed. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>Anthropology>Anthropology, University of Illinois Press Core >1 >T<

2004, ISBN: 9780252071676

University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 264 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-05-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 25 photographs, 0.94 kg, Anthropologie,… Mehr…

University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 264 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-05-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 25 photographs, 0.94 kg, Anthropologie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Genderstudies, Lateinamerikaner, Ethnographie, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Taschenbücher, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4201, Format: Illustriert, University of Illinois Press, 2004<