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  • The Tourism Encounter

    Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories

    by Florence Babb ...
    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 ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Tourism Encounter

    Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories

    by Florence Babb ...
    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 ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Perspectives In U.s. Marxist Anthropology

    by David J. Hakken, Hanna Lessinger, June Nash, Florence Babb ...
    An assessment of current trends in Marxist anthropology, thiscollection of essays reflects both the unifying force of Marxist thoughtand the diversity of contemporary anthropology. Linked by a commonapproach-a shared commitment to Marxist analysis-the contributorslook at a variety of phenomena, including the problems of labor andwork, in terms of a coherent theory of Marxism. Examining political ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Norms and Illegality

    Intimate Ethnographies and Politics

    by Cristiana Panella, Isabella Clough Marinaro, Andrew Walsh, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Lorelei C. Mendoza, B. Lynne Milgram, Florence E. Babb, Michael Herzfeld, Walter E. Little, Gordon Mathews1, Alan Smart2 ...
    Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics explores liminal and illegal practices in relation to political control and cultural normativity. The contributors draw on years of ethnographic experiences in Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Italy, Madagascar, Mali, Philippines, and Thailand to study the contradictions of what is legal and illegal. They explore the production of illegal ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • 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 ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America

    Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce

    by Carlos Alba Vega, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Eveline Dürr, Magali Marega, Helge Mooshammer, Juliane Müller, Cristina Vega, Florence E. Babb, Natalie Goltenboth0, Peter Mortenbock1, André Vereta-Nahoum2 ...
    The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. Contributors address case studies in Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru to provide new insights in key concepts such as ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Between Field and Cooking Pot

    The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru, Revised Edition

    by Florence E. Babb ...
    Series series Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology
    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 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Tourism Planning and Development in Latin America

    by Dr Konstantinos Andriotis, Dimitrios Stylidis, Ileana Araúz-Beita, Adrián Arias-Navarro, Florence E Babb, Melvin Bermúdez-Elizondo, Carlos Ronald Borbon-Sandí, Juan Gabriel Brida0, Enrique Calfucura1, Francisca de la Maza2, Carolina Inés Garcia3, Carla Guerrón Montero4, Bibiana Lanzilotta5, Ledys López Zapata6, Gabriela Maldonado Pérez7, Andrea Muñoz-Barriga8, Gerardo Novo9, Maribel Osorio-García0, Fiorella Pizzolon1, Natalia Porto2, Martín Rodríguez Brindis3, Sandra Zapata-Aguirre4 ...
    Series series CABI Regional Tourism Series
    Despite the significance of tourism to the economic, social and environmental structures of Latin America, little has been documented in the English-language literature about tourism in this region. Filling that void, this book focuses exclusively on tourism development and planning, and the impact this has on a wide number of Latin American countries. It covers experiences, challenges, successful ... Read more

    $132.89 USD

  • 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 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Re-Centering Women in Tourism

    Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies

    by Sarah Becklake, Augusta Lynn Bolles, Emily Falconer, Amy Kipp, Kris Maksymowicz, Siân Stephens, Karen Stocker, Frances Julia Riemer, Lindsey B. Pullum ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    Re-Centering Women in Tourism: Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. This volume contributes to conversations on the engagement of women in tourism by centering women’s multivalent lived experiences—as hosts, liaisons, vendors, performers, producers, and consumers—in tourism projects. Examining eco-tourism, craft ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Owners of the Sidewalk

    Security and Survival in the Informal City

    by Daniel M. Goldstein ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent ... Read more

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