Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios : The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca /

In this rich ethnography of Oaxaca, Mexico, the authors look at the lives of people that are often marginalized: the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellectuals

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Higgins, Michael James (Author), Coen, Tanya L. (Tanya Leigh) (Author)
Other Authors: Moore-Jazayeri, Marsha (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2000]
Edition:First edition
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pauvres > Mexique > Oaxaca.
Gehandicapten.
Prostituees.
Transseksuelen.
Homoseksuelen.
Subcultuur.
Stadssociologie.
Identiteit.
Soziale Situation
Homosexualität
Armut
Social conditions
Social groups.
Poor.
Gays.
Artists.
Cultural pluralism.
Intellectuals.
Lesbians.
People with disabilities.
Sex workers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Intellectuals > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
Artists > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
Lesbians > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
Gays > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
People with disabilities > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
Sex workers > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
Poor > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
Cultural pluralism > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
Social groups > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
Oaxaca (Mexique) > Conditions sociales.
Oaxaca de Juárez
Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez.
Oaxaca (Mexique : État) > Conditions sociales.
Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE: Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca
  • CHAPTER TWO: Better to Arrive Than to Be Invited: The Urban Poor of the City of Oaxaca
  • CHAPTER THREE: We Are Not Lesbians!: Grupo Unión: Homosexual Transvestite Prostitutes in Urban Oaxaca
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Only the Spoon Knows What's at the Bottom of the Pot!: Other Groups Transgressing Sexual and Gender Borders in Urban Oaxaca
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Thanks to God for Giving Me Polio, for I Have Been Able to See the World: Los Discapacitados of the City of OaxacaCHAPTER SIX: A Conclusion of Sorts
  • Notes
  • Bibliography and Suggested Readings
  • Index
  • A
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