Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy Among Market Women of Cuzco

by Linda J. Seligmann

Book Overview

For more than twenty years, Linda J. Seligmann walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets in Cuzco's Andean highlands. Her combination of ethnographic analysis, insightful and human vignettes, and superb photographs offers a humane yet incisive portrait of the women's lives against the backdrop of globalization and other powerful forces.

In Peruvian Street...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252071670
• ISBN13: 9780252071676
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.6"