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Author Lancaster, Roger N.

Title Life is hard : machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua / Roger N. Lancaster.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 340 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "A Centennial book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-332) and index.
Contents This Book and Its Title -- Personas -- pt. I. Life. I. Junkyards. II. Beating One's Wife. III. Murdering One's Husband's Lover. IV. Coping with Less: Compadrazgo, Friendship, and Provisioning. V. Chicken Soup; or, Gossip, Tradition, and the Anthropologist. VI. Censoring La semana comica -- pt. II. Some Lives. VII. Rolando. VIII. Flora. IX. Osvaldo. X. Elvis. XI. Roger. XII. Maximo. XIII. Jaime. XIV. Jazmina. XV. Virgilio -- pt. III. Power, Politics, and Personal Life. XVI. Dealing with Danger. XVII. The Negro of the Family. XVIII. Subject Honor, Object Shame.
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Subject Nicaragua -- Social conditions -- 1979-
Nicaragua.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1979-
Subject Nicaragua -- Social conditions -- 1979- -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 1979-1990.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1979-1990
Subject Power (Social sciences)
Power (Social sciences)
Chronological Term Since 1979
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Lancaster, Roger N. Life is hard. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992 0520079248 (DLC) 91045764 (OCoLC)25130952
ISBN 9780520915527 (electronic book)
0520915526 (electronic book)
0585250375 (electronic book)
9780585250373 (electronic book)