Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Hardcover

Seligmann, Linda J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804740526 ISBN 13: 9780804740524

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2002

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Críticas:

"This book is a diverse yet surprisingly comprehensive examinationof women's experiences as traders indifferent anthropological settings. The analytic traditions used vary, but what unites the essays is that the authors' overall concernis to show how gender ideologies and women's market participationinteract in ways that wehave scarcely understood until now." -- Susan Russell * northern Illinois University * "This welcome addition to recent publications on market women, focusing on market women's identity (and ethnicity) and on how economic behaviours both shape and 'are shaped by local cultural practices and values, especially those pertaining to gender.'" -- Canadian Journal of Sociology "A compilation which delves into new areas of ethnographic research and makes significant contributions to the anthropology of work . . . .It also opens up an interesting branch of research regarding identity creation in a globalized world where metaphoric borders are slowly fading away in previously unimaginable ways." -- Anthropology of Work Review

Reseña del editor:

This innovative volume studies women traders as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in ten diverse locales-Bolivia, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, and the Philippines. Its focus is on how these women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0804740526
• ISBN 13: 9780804740524
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322