Peruvian street lives : culture, power, and economy among market women of Cuzco /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Seligmann, Linda J., 1954-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
Series:	Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
Subjects:	Women > Peru > Cuzco > Social conditions. Women > Peru > Cuzco > Economic conditions. Peddlers > Peru > Cuzco. Poor women > Peru > Cuzco. Markets > Peru > Cuzco. Women merchants > Peru > Cuzco.

Table of 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?