Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy among

Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco (Interp Culture New Millennium)

Cultural study of the lives and struggles the women in the open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco face. 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. 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.
Country USA
Brand University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer University of Illinois Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 25 photographs
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780252071676
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer	University of Illinois Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	25 photographs
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780252071676
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco (Interp Culture New Millennium)

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