The City at Its Limits : Taboo, Transgression, and Urban Renewal in Lima
Daniella. Gandolfo
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, Ill. ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (287 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Taboo; 2 First Diary; 3 Beauty; 4 Second Diary; 5 Filth; 6 Third Diary; 7 Nakedness; 8 Last Entry; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits; Index. - 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 int
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| Emner | Lima (Peru) - Social conditions - 20th century.
Lima (Peru) - Social life and customs - 20th century. Urban renewal - Peru - Lima. Urban renewal. Vis mer... Antropologi
Byfornyelse Latin-Amerika Lima (Peru) : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01780 Lima Peru Social Conditions Social Sciences Sociology & Social History Sosialantropologi Sør-Amerika Tabu byantropologi urbanantropologi |
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| ISBN | 0226280977. - 0226280985. - 9780226280974. - 9780226280981
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