Streets, Bedrooms, & Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca - Couverture rigide

Higgins, Michael; Coen, Tanya

9780292731332: Streets, Bedrooms, & Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca

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Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2000

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Diversity characterises the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Within this 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 rich ethnography of the city, Michael Higgins and Tanya Coen explore how these activities fit into the ordinary daily lives of the people of Oaxaca. Higgins and Coen focus their attention on groups that are often marginalised - the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellectuals. Blending portraits of and comments by group members with their own ethnographic observations, the authors reveal how such issues as racism, sexism, sexuality, spirituality, and class struggle play out in the people's daily lives and in grassroots political activism. By doing so, they translate the abstract concepts of social action and identity formation into the actual lived experiences of real people. Michael James Higgins is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado. Tanya L. Coen is Co-Director of Zocalero Creative Cultural Productions in San Francisco. Together they also wrote "Oigame! Oigame!: Struggle and Social Change in a Nicaraguan Urban Community".

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"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

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Date d'�dition2000
ISBN 10 0292731337
ISBN 13 9780292731332
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Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca

Higgins, Michael James and Tanya L. Coen

Edit� par University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2000

ISBN 10 : 0292731337 ISBN 13 : 9780292731332

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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. BP2 - A first edition hardcover book in very good condition that has some bumped corners and light shelf wear with no dust jacket. A book that presents portraits of cultural and social groups in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico through a combination of interview excerpts and anthropological analysis. The authors base focus on the 'ondas' or lifestyles the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, the disabled, gays and lesbians, and AIDS activists. These are described in order to demonstrate the diversity of customs in this Mexican city and the authors contrast this diversity with the lives of the average Mexican. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N� de r�f. du vendeur EC23087BB

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