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Title

Peruvian street lives: culture, power, and economy among market women of Cuzco / Linda J. Seligmann.

Author

Seligmann, Linda J., 1954-

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.

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Description

x, 249 p. ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Subject

• Women > Peru > Cuzco > Social conditions
• Women > Peru > Cuzco > Economic conditions
• Peddlers and peddling > Peru > Cuzco
• Poor women > Peru > Cuzco
• Markets > Peru > Cuzco
• Women merchants > Peru > Cuzco

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.

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

ISBN

• 0252029011 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0252071670 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003014290

OCLC

52514361

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.

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Research Call Number

JHE 04-362