Overview
Diversity characterises the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Within a city of half a million, residents are rising against traditional barriers of race and class, defining new gender roles and expanding access for the disabled. In this ethnography of the city, Higgins and Coen explore how these activities fit into the ordinary daily lives of the people of Oaxaca. The authors focus their attention on groups which are often marginalised - the urban poor, female prostitutes, artists and intellectuals - and blend portraits of and comments by group memebers with their own ethnographic observations. The authors reveal how such issues as racism, sexism, sexuality and spirituality as well class struggle play out in people's daily lives and in grassroots political activism.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael James Higgins ,
Tanya L. Coen
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780292731349
ISBN 10: 0292731345
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 01 June 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""What is remarkably powerful about this book is the fantastic humanity of its descriptions, feelings, characters, relationships, etc... At certain occasions it was amazingly impossible for me to put the book down: I could not help but want to know more."" Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-New World Studies, Florida International University
What is remarkably powerful about this book is the fantastic humanity of its descriptions, feelings, characters, relationships, etc... At certain occasions it was amazingly impossible for me to put the book down: I could not help but want to know more. Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-New World Studies, Florida International University
"""What is remarkably powerful about this book is the fantastic humanity of its descriptions, feelings, characters, relationships, etc... At certain occasions it was amazingly impossible for me to put the book down: I could not help but want to know more."" Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-New World Studies, Florida International University"
Author Information
Michael James Higgins is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado. Tanya L. Coen is Co-Director of Zacalero Creative Cultural Productions in San Francisco. Together they also wrote ¡Oigame! ¡Oigame!: Struggle and Social Change in a Nicaraguan Urban Community.
