Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture

by Arnold J. Bauer

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This book is an original exploration into the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years with special attention to the categories of food, clothing, shelter, and the arrangement of public and private space. The practice of consumption is related to supply and demand but also to the importance of ritual and the scramble for identity within the ethnic and class arrangements imposed by colonial and postcolonial...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:052177702X

ISBN13:9780521777025

Release Date:April 2001

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Americas Business Business & Investing Central America Economics History Latin America Macroeconomics Politics & Social Sciences Popular Economics

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