Description
Book SynopsisPresents the cultural study of the lives and struggles the women in the open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco face. This book traces the impact on market women and market activities of distant yet enormously powerful forces, such as economic globalization.
Trade ReviewCited as one of two Leeds Honor Books for 2006 by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA).
"[A] fascinating book. . . . Seligmann not only offers an incisive analysis of Cuzco's market culture but she also demonstrates the power of ethnographic fieldwork that is engaged, participatory, reflexive, and empathetic."--
American Ethnologist"
Peruvian Street Lives captures the lives, the daily rhythms, passions, and politics of the women who crowd Cuzco's markets and streets. Seligmann breaks through surface understandings and misperceptions of these women and their work and offers us a rich stew, a close view of their everyday challenges and the cultural logic of the Andean marketplace. I look forward to using this book in teaching."--Florence Babb, University of Iowa
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1. Market Spaces and Market Places 19
2. Dried Goods, Soup, and Fried Eggs: Exchange Relations 42
3. Bitter Salt: Household Structures and Gender Ideologies 54
4. Straw Hats: The World of Wholesalers 71
5.. Harpies and the Empty, Dirty, Overpriced Bread Basket: Regulating the Market Chain 87
6. Sharks: Loan and Credit Arrangements 104
7. Talking Brew, Butchering Patience: Conversations in the Marketplace 119
8. Race Recipes: Alliances and Animosity 148
9. Angels and Saints: Popular Religiosity 161
10. Two-Way Streets: Political Action 196
Conclusion: What's in Store? 223
References Cited 229
Index 237
