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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 more fully with interlocutors from the South will lead to a deeper understanding of the iconic Andean women who are subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn. This book’s novel approach goes on to set forth a collaborative methodology for rethinking gender and race in the Americas.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 304
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
25 May 2018
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520298170
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
"Florence Babb’s Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology is a refreshing and unique collection that puts Babb’s writings since the 1970s into dialogue with her more recent work and with contemporary feminist theory broadly. ... the book ultimately illustrates in a complex, multi-scalar way one of the most important talents of the successful anthropologist, in any part of the world: that of listening."
Florence E. Babb is the Anthony Harrington Distinguished Professor in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories.
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xvii
Introduction: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Indigeneity in Andean Peru 1
PART I. GENDER AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT: THE VICOS PROJECT 33
Commentary 35
1. Women and Men in Vicos, Peru: A Case of Unequal Development 55
PART II. GENDER AND THE URBAN INFORMAL ECONOMY 87
Commentary 89
2. Women in the Marketplace: Petty Commerce in Peru 107
3. Producers and Reproducers: Andean Market
Women in the Economy 123
4. Market/Places as Gendered Spaces: Market/Women’s Studies over Two Decades 133
PART III. GENDERED POLITICS OF WORK, TOURISM, AND CULTURAL IDENTITY 143
Commentary 145
5. Women’s Work: Engendering Economic Anthropology 165
6. Theorizing Gender, Race, and Cultural Tourism in Latin America: A View from Peru and Mexico 183
Conclusion: Toward a Decolonial Feminist Anthropology 200
Notes 223
References 239
Index 265
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xvii
Introduction: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Indigeneity in Andean Peru 1
PART I. GENDER AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT: THE VICOS PROJECT 33
Commentary 35
1. Women and Men in Vicos, Peru: A Case of Unequal Development 55
PART II. GENDER AND THE URBAN INFORMAL ECONOMY 87
Commentary 89
2. Women in the Marketplace: Petty Commerce in Peru 107
3. Producers and Reproducers: Andean Market
Women in the Economy 123
4. Market/Places as Gendered Spaces: Market/Women’s Studies over Two Decades 133
PART III. GENDERED POLITICS OF WORK, TOURISM, AND CULTURAL IDENTITY 143
Commentary 145
5. Women’s Work: Engendering Economic Anthropology 165
6. Theorizing Gender, Race, and Cultural Tourism in Latin America: A View from Peru and Mexico 183
Conclusion: Toward a Decolonial Feminist Anthropology 200
Notes 223
References 239
Index 265