Working Hard, Drinking Hard - On Violence and Survival in Honduras

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-25544-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

"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 fraught relationship and the effect it has had on Hondurans' understanding of who they are. The result is a rich and visceral portrait of a culture buffeted by the forces of globalization and inequality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pine, Adrienne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volks- und Völkerkundliche Museen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Violence
2. Alcohol
3. Maquiladoras
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adrienne Pine is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Washington, DC