Peruvian Street Lives

Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco

By: Linda J. Seligmann

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Paperback | 17 March 2004

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Cultural study of the lives and struggles the women in the open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco face. For more than twenty years Linda J. Seligmann has walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco. In this readable ethnography, composed of vignettes and accompanied by a superb series of photographs, Seligmann offers a humane yet incisive portrayal of their lives. Peruvian Street Lives argues that the sometimes invisible and informal economic, social, and political networks market women establish, although they may appear disorderly and chaotic, in fact often keep dysfunctional economies and corrupt bureaucracies from utterly destroying the ability of citizens to survive from day to day. Seligmann asks why the constructive efforts of market women to make a living provoke such negative social perceptions from some members of Peruvian society, who see them as symbols and actual catalysts of social disorder, domestically and publicly. The book traces the impact on market women and market activities of distant yet enormously powerful forces, such as economic globalization. At the same time it shows how market women eke out a living, combat discrimination, and creatively transgress existing racial and gender ideologies, within the rich and expressive cultural traditions they have developed.

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''Peruvian Street Lives captures the lives, the daily rhythms, passions, and politics of the women who crowd Cuzco's markets and streets. Seligmann breaks through surface understandings and misperceptions of these women and their work and offers us a rich stew, a close view of their everyday challenges and the cultural logic of the Andean marketplace. I look forward to using this book in teaching.'' -Florence Babb, professor of anthropology and women's studies at the University of Iowa

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Market spaces and market places	p. 19
Dried goods, soup, and fried eggs : exchange relations	p. 42
Bitter salt : household structures and gender ideologies	p. 54
Straw hats : the world of wholesalers	p. 71
Harpies and the empty, dirty, overpriced bread basket : regulating the market chain	p. 87
Sharks : loan and credit arrangements	p. 104
Talking brew, butchering patience : conversations in the marketplace	p. 119
Race recipes : alliances and animosity	p. 148
Angels and saints : popular religiosity	p. 161
Two-way streets : political action	p. 196
Conclusion : what's in store?	p. 223
References cited	p. 229
Index	p. 237
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