ISBN:
9780520255432
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (269 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Working Hard, Drinking Hard : On Violence and Survival in Honduras
DDC:
305.5/62097283
Keywords:
Honduras - Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Honduras is violent." Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas-violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry-Pine explores the daily relationships and routines of urban Hondurans. She views their lives in the context of the vast economic footprint on and ideological domination of the region by the United States, powerfully elucidating the extent of Honduras's dependence. She provides a historically situated ethnographic analysis of this fra
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Violence; 2. Alcohol; 3. Maquiladoras; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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