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american international influence
anthropology
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booze
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central america
corporate capitalism
dependence
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dying
economics
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ethnography
export processing industry
factory workers
gangs
global poverty
globalization
globalized consumerism
history
honduran culture
honduran society
honduran subjectivity
honduras
ideology
inequality
labor
maquiladoras
neoliberalism
political
poor
poverty
shanty town
united states of america
urban honduras
us domination
violence
work
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9780520255449
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Honduras is violent." Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas - violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry - Pine explores the daily relationships and routines of urban Hondurans. She views their lives in the context of the vast economic footprint on and ideological domination of the region by the United States, powerfully elucidating the extent of Honduras' dependence. She provides a historically situated ethnographic analysis of this fraught relationship and the effect it has had on Hondurans' understanding of who they are. The result is a rich and visceral portrait of a culture buffeted by the forces of globalization and inequality.
Adrienne Pine is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Washington, DC
