Peruvian Street Lives

Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco

Autor: Linda J. Seligmann

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Illinois Press

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For more than twenty years, Linda J. Seligmann has walked the streets of Peru in city and countrysid...

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Autor

Linda J. Seligmann

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2004

strony

264

EAN

9780252071676

ISBN

0252071670

Enbook ID

04559876

Wydawca

University of Illinois Press

Waga

432

Wymiary

154 x 227 x 19

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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 series of photographs, Seligmann offers a humane yet incisive portrayal of their lives. "Peruvian Street Lives" argues that the sometimes invisible and informal economic, social, and political networks market women establish, although they may appear disorderly and chaotic, in fact often keep dysfunctional economies and corrupt bureaucracies from utterly destroying the ability of citizens to survive from day to day. Seligmann asks why the constructive efforts of market women to make a living provoke such negative social perceptions from some members of Peruvian society, who see them as symbols and actual catalysts of social disorder, domestically and publicly. The book traces the impact on market women and market activities of distant yet enormously powerful forces, such as economic globalization. At the same time it shows how market women eke out a living, combat discrimination, and creatively transgress existing racial and gender ideologies, within the rich and expressive cultural traditions they have developed.

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