Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca

by Lynn Stephen

Book Overview

In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitl n del Valle, Oaxaca, have changed in response to the international demand for Oaxacan textiles. Based on Stephen's research in Teotitl n during the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822336413
• ISBN13: 9780822336419
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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