Peruvian Street Lives : Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco /
"For more than twenty years Linda J. Seligmann has walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco. In this readable ethnography, composed of vignettes and accompanied by a superb serie...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2004.
|
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Market spaces and market places
- Dried goods, soup, and fried eggs: exchange relations among market women
- Bitter salt: household structures and gender ideologies
- Straw hats: the world of wholesalers
- Harpies and the empty, dirty, overpriced bread basket: regulating the market chain
- Sharks: loan and credit arrangements
- Talking brew, butchering patience: conversations in the marketplace
- Race recipes: alliances and animosity
- Angels and saints: popular religiosity among market women
- Two-way streets: political action among market women
- Conclusion: what's in store?