Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization. She analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, tradition, and community. More specifically, she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are inalienable possessions of a local collective passed down to subsequent generations, has shaped and sustained the cooperative's sense of identity.
Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalizat...
Based on new fieldwork in 1997, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers has updated her classic study of the effects of economic development on the women weavers of San Pedro Sacatepequez. Revisiting many of the women she interviewed in the 1970s and 1980s and revising her earlier hopeful assessment of women's entrepreneurial opportunities, Ehlers convincingly demonstrates that development and commercial growth in the region have benefited men at the expense of women.
Based on new fieldwork in 1997, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers has updated her classic study of the effects of economic development on the women weavers of ...
The last few decades have witnessed a growing integration of the world system of production on the basis of a new relationship between less developed and highly industrialized countries. The effect is a geographical dispersion of the various production stages in the manufacturing process as the large corporations of industrialized "First World" countries are attracted by low labor costs, taxes, and relaxed production restrictions available in developing countries. This collection of papers focuses on inequalities among different sectors of the labor force, particularly those related to...
The last few decades have witnessed a growing integration of the world system of production on the basis of a new relationship between less developed ...
Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader expands on standard studies of social movements by offering a collection of writings that is exclusively anthropological in nature and global in its focus-thereby serving as an invaluable tool for instructors and students alike.
Based on fieldwork carried out on four continents - North America, South America, Africa, and Asia - and in 14 countries
Includes articles that address problems ranging from global health and the spread of diseases; loss of control over basic resources such as water and...
Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader expands on standard studies of social movements by offering a collection of writings that is exclus...
A fine collection . . . this is a volume every person with interests in the social sciences and/or Latin America should read. "American Anthropologist"
Outlines in impressive detail the dimensions of women's powerlessness and shows the rich array of strategies women use to survive the oppression of their daily lives. "Women's Review of Books"
A fine collection . . . this is a volume every person with interests in the social sciences and/or Latin America should read. "American Anthropolog...
A fine collection . . . this is a volume every person with interests in the social sciences and/or Latin America should read. "American Anthropologist"
Outlines in impressive detail the dimensions of women's powerlessness and shows the rich array of strategies women use to survive the oppression of their daily lives. "Women's Review of Books"
A fine collection . . . this is a volume every person with interests in the social sciences and/or Latin America should read. "American Anthropolog...
First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism.
First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field Latin American politics on a range of t...
By the mid-twentieth century, Eastern European Jews had become one of Argentina's largest minorities. Some represented a wave of immigration begun two generations before; many settled in the province of Entre Rios and founded an agricultural colony. Taking its title from the resulting hybrid of acculturation, The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho examines the lives of these settlers, who represented a merger between native cowboy identities and homeland memories.
The arrival of these immigrants in what would be the village of Villa Clara coincided with the nation's new...
By the mid-twentieth century, Eastern European Jews had become one of Argentina's largest minorities. Some represented a wave of immigration begun ...
