Cultural study of the lives and struggles the women in the open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco face. For more than twenty years Linda J. Seligmann has walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco. In this readable ethnography, composed of vignettes and accompanied by a superb series of photographs, Seligmann offers a humane yet incisive portrayal of their lives. economic, social, and political networks market women establish, although they may appear disorderly and...
Cultural study of the lives and struggles the women in the open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco face. For more than twenty years Linda J....
Based upon historical and archival research, as well as the author's fieldwork in indigenous communities, this work analyzes value from the perspective of the Napo Runa people of the Amazonian Ecuador. It views that Napo Runa personifies value by transforming things into people through a process of subordinating them to human relationships.
Based upon historical and archival research, as well as the author's fieldwork in indigenous communities, this work analyzes value from the perspectiv...
