Voices from the Global Margin
Confronting Poverty and Inventing New Lives in the Andes
Voices from the Global Margin looks behind the generalities of debates about globalization to explore the personal impact of global forces on the Peruvian poor. In this highly readable ethnography, William Mitchell draws on the narratives of people he has known for forty years, offering deep insight into how they have coped with extreme poverty and rapid population growth--and their creation of new lives and customs in the process. In their own passionate words they describe their struggles to make ends meet, many abandoning rural homes for marginal wages in Lima and the United States. They chronicle their terror during the Shining Path guerr…
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- ISBN: 978-0-292-71300-0
- EAN: 9780292713000
- Produktnummer: 2232961
- Verlag: University of Texas Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 499 g
- Abbildungen: 42 halftones
- Gewicht: 499
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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