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Peruvian Street Lives

Linda J. Seligmann
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Andean highlands
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Cuzco
discrimination
economic forces
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ethnography
ethnography of Latin America
ethnography of Peru
gender
government policy
indigenous women
informal markets
itinerant vendors
Latin America
loan sharks
marginalization
market society
markets
open-air markets
organization
permanent vendors
Peruvian society
photographs
political networks
race
relocation
social networks
South America
structure
tradition
vendors
wholesalers
women
women and markets
women's lives
women's movements
women's social organization
women's work
work cultures
work lives

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252071676
  • Weight: 399g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Mar 2004
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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For more than twenty years, Linda J. Seligmann walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets in Cuzco's Andean highlands. Her combination of ethnographic analysis, insightful and human vignettes, and superb photographs offers a humane yet incisive portrait of the women's lives against the backdrop of globalization and other powerful forces.

In Peruvian Street Lives, Seligmann argues that the sometimes invisible and informal economic, social, and political networks market women establish may appear disorderly and chaotic, but 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. At the same time, Seligmann shows how market women eke out a living, combat discrimination, and transgress racial and gender ideologies within the rich and expressive cultural traditions they have developed.
About Linda J. Seligmann
Linda J. Seligmann is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at George Mason University. Her books include Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation and Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco.

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