Peruvian street lives: culture, power, and economy among market women of Cuzco
- Title
- Peruvian street lives: culture, power, and economy among market women of Cuzco / Linda J. Seligmann.
- Published by
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 249 p. ill.; 24 cm.
- Series statement
- Interpretations of culture in the new millennium
- Subject
- Peddlers and peddling > Peru > Cuzco
- Poor women > Peru > Cuzco
- Women > Peru > Cuzco > Social conditions
- Markets > Peru > Cuzco
- Women > Peru > Cuzco > Economic conditions
- Women merchants > Peru > Cuzco
- 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?
- Call number
- JHE 04-362
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.
- Author
- Seligmann, Linda J., 1954-
- Title
- Peruvian street lives: culture, power, and economy among market women of Cuzco / Linda J. Seligmann.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.
- Series
- Interpretations of culture in the new millennium
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.
- Connect to:
- LCCN
- 2003014290
- ISBN
- 0252029011 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252071670 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- JHE 04-362