ISBN:
0226280993
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9780226280998
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 269 pages)
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DDC:
306.0985/2509049
Schlagwort(e):
1900 - 1999
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Urban renewal
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Manners and customs
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Social history
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Urban renewal
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Stadtleben
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Gesellschaft
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Sozialgeschichte
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Urban renewal
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Gesellschaft
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Stadtleben
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Lima
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Lima
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Stadtleben
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Gesellschaft
Anmerkung:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Taboo -- First diary -- Beauty -- Second diary -- Filth -- Third diary -- Nakedness -- Last entry
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In 1996, against the backdrop of Alberto Fujimori's increasingly corrupt national politics, an older woman in Lima, Peru-part of a group of women street sweepers protesting the privatization of the city's cleaning services-stripped to the waist in full view of the crowd that surrounded her. Lima had just launched a campaign to revitalize its historic districts, and this shockingly transgressive act was just one of a series of events that challenged the norms of order, cleanliness, and beauty that the renewal effort promoted. The City at Its Limits employs a novel and fluid interweaving of essa
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