Peruvian street lives : culture, power, and economy among market women of Cuzco /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seligmann, Linda J., 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2004.
Series:Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
Subjects:
Women > Peru > Cuzco > Social conditions.
Women > Peru > Cuzco > Economic conditions.
Peddling > Peru > Cuzco.
Poor women > Peru > Cuzco.
Markets > Peru > Cuzco.
Women merchants > Peru > Cuzco.
Peddlers > Peru > Cuzco.
Femmes > Pérou > Cuzco > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Pérou > Cuzco > Conditions économiques.
Colporteurs > Pérou > Cuzco.
Femmes pauvres > Pérou > Cuzco.
Marchés > Pérou > Cuzco.
Commerçantes > Pérou > Cuzco.
Colportage > Pérou > Cuzco.
15.85 history of America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Peddlers
Markets
Peddling
Poor women
Women > Economic conditions
Women merchants
Women > Social conditions
Marktfrau
Soziale Situation
Soziale Stellung
Market vendors.
Women.
Socio-economical aspects.
Peru > Cuzco
Cuzco
Cuzco.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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