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Women's Place in the Andes

Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology

By: Florence E. Babb

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Women's Place in the Andes

Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology

By: Florence E. Babb

In Women’s Place in the Andes Florence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify currents in feminist anthropology and activism. Babb argues that decolonizing feminism and engaging more fully with interlocutors from the South will lead to a deeper understanding of the iconic Andean women who are subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn. This book’s novel approach goes on to set forth a collaborative methodology for rethinking gender and race in the Americas.

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0520970411

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Women's Place in the Andes

Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology

By: Florence E. Babb

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Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology

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Between Field and Cooking Pot

The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru, Revised Edition

By: Florence E. Babb

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The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru, Revised Edition

By: Florence E. Babb

From reviews of the first edition: "Between Field and Cooking Pot offers details of the daily lives of marketwomen in the central Andean departmental capital of Huaraz.... A welcome addition to studies of women and international development, this book contains a wealth of firsthand material, collected through informal participant-observation as well as formal interviews and analysis of statistical data.... The book encourages us to imagine how the dynamic culture of marketwomen might intersect with the construction, representation, and effects of class and gender." —American Anthropologist "The book has a clear and readable style, moving easily between vignettes of marketwomen's lives, descriptions of the markets themselves, and surveys of the theoretical literature. Babb's long, close involvement with the Huaraz markets is apparent. As someone who has spent a lot of time in Andean markets, I found the book pleasurable to read, because it recreated the experience of the marketplace so well." —American Ethnologist This revised edition of Between Field and Cooking Pot offers an updated appraisal of what neoliberal politics and economics mean in the lives of marketwomen in the nineties, based on new fieldwork conducted in 1997. Babb also reflects on how recent currents in feminist and anthropological studies have caused her to rethink some aspects of Andean marketers in Peruvian culture and society.

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University of Texas Press

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0292792158

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9780292792159

After Revolution

Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua

By: Florence E. Babb

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After Revolution

Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua

By: Florence E. Babb

Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution (1979-1990) initiated a broad program of social transformation to improve the situation of the working class and poor, women, and other non-elite groups through agrarian reform, restructured urban employment, and wide access to health care, education, and social services. This book explores how Nicaragua's least powerful citizens have fared in the years since the Sandinista revolution, as neoliberal governments have rolled back these state-supported reforms and introduced measures to promote the development of a market-driven economy. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted throughout the 1990s, Florence Babb describes the negative consequences that have followed the return to a capitalist path, especially for women and low-income citizens. In addition, she charts the growth of women's and other social movements (neighborhood, lesbian and gay, indigenous, youth, peace, and environmental) that have taken advantage of new openings for political mobilization. Her ethnographic portraits of a low-income barrio and of women's craft cooperatives powerfully link local, cultural responses to national and global processes.

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University of Texas Press

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0292782829

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9780292782822

The Tourism Encounter

Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories

By: Florence Babb

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The Tourism Encounter

Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories

By: Florence Babb

This book considers the recent growth of tourism in transitional societies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Research in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru reveals that tourism often takes up where social transformation leaves off and may even benefit from the formerly off-limits status of nations that have undergone periods of conflict or rebellion.

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Stanford University Press

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0804771561

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The Tourism Encounter

Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories

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Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories

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In recent decades, several Latin American nations have experienced political transitions that have caused a decline in tourism. In spite of—or even because of—that history, these areas are again becoming popular destinations. This work reveals that in post-conflict nations, tourism often takes up where social transformation leaves off and sometimes benefits from formerly off-limits status. Comparing cases in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru, Babb shows how tourism is a major force in remaking transitional nations. While tourism touts scenic beauty and colonial charm, it also capitalizes on the desire for a brush with recent revolutionary history. In the process, selective histories are promoted and nations remade. This work presents the diverse stories of those linked to the trade and reveals how interpretations of the past and desires for the future coincide and collide in the global marketplace of tourism.

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0804775605

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Book's by Florence E. Babb

Women's Place in the Andes

Women's Place in the Andes

Women's Place in the Andes

Women's Place in the Andes

Between Field and Cooking Pot

Between Field and Cooking Pot

After Revolution

After Revolution

The Tourism Encounter

The Tourism Encounter

The Tourism Encounter

The Tourism Encounter

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