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Working hard, drinking hard : on violence and survival in Honduras /
"Honduras is violent." Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas--violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry--Pine explores the daily...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Honduras is violent." Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas--violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry--Pine explores the daily relationships and routines of urban Hondurans. She views their lives in the context of the vast economic footprint on and ideological domination of the region by the United States, powerfully elucidating the extent of Honduras's dependence. She provides a historically situated ethnographic analysis of this fra. |
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| Notas: | Title from e-book title screen (viewed Dec. 21, 2009). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520255445 0520255437 9780520255432 9780520255449 1282360531 9781282360532 0520941624 9780520941625 9786612360534 6612360534 |