Includes bibliographical references (pages 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?