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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Seligmann, Linda J., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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?