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Author Seligmann, Linda J., 1954-

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

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HQ1575.C89 S45 2004    Available  ---
Description x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Interpretations of culture in the new millennium
Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
Bibliography 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?
Subject Women -- Peru -- Cuzco -- Social conditions.
Women.
Peru -- Cuzco.
Social conditions.
Women -- Peru -- Cuzco -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Peddling -- Peru -- Cuzco.
Peddling.
Poor women -- Peru -- Cuzco.
Poor women.
Markets -- Peru -- Cuzco.
Markets.
Women merchants -- Peru -- Cuzco.
Women merchants.
Women.
Womyn.
ISBN 0252029011 cloth alkaline paper
0252071670 paperback alkaline paper