{"product_id":"peruvian-street-lives-9780252071676","title":"Peruvian Street Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCited as one of two Leeds Honor Books for 2006 by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational\/Global Anthropology (SUNTA).\u003cbr\u003e\"[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.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePeruvian Street Lives\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements   vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Market Spaces and Market Places   19\u003cbr\u003e 2. Dried Goods, Soup, and Fried Eggs: Exchange Relations   42\u003cbr\u003e 3. Bitter Salt: Household Structures and Gender Ideologies   54\u003cbr\u003e 4. Straw Hats: The World of Wholesalers   71\u003cbr\u003e 5.. Harpies and the Empty, Dirty, Overpriced Bread Basket: Regulating the Market Chain   87\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sharks: Loan and Credit Arrangements   104\u003cbr\u003e 7. Talking Brew, Butchering Patience: Conversations in the Marketplace   119\u003cbr\u003e 8. Race Recipes: Alliances and Animosity   148\u003cbr\u003e 9. Angels and Saints: Popular Religiosity   161\u003cbr\u003e 10. Two-Way Streets: Political Action   196\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: What's in Store?   223\u003cbr\u003e References Cited   229\u003cbr\u003e Index   237","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534926217559,"sku":"9780252071676","price":30.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252071676.jpg?v=1755858089","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/peruvian-street-lives-9780252071676","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}