Title Streets, bedrooms & patios : the ordinariness of diversity in urban Oaxaca : ethnographic portraits of street kids, urban poor, transvestites, discapacitados, and other popular cultures / Michael James Higgins and Tanya L. Coen ; with the editorial assistance of Marsha Moore-Jazayeri

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, [2000] ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 312 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE: Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca -- CHAPTER TWO: Better to Arrive Than to Be Invited: The Urban Poor of the City of Oaxaca -- CHAPTER THREE: We Are Not Lesbians!: Grupo Unión: Homosexual Transvestite Prostitutes in Urban Oaxaca -- CHAPTER FOUR: Only the Spoon Knows What's at the Bottom of the Pot!: Other Groups Transgressing Sexual and Gender Borders in Urban Oaxaca CHAPTER FIVE: Thanks to God for Giving Me Polio, for I Have Been Able to See the World: Los Discapacitados of the City of OaxacaCHAPTER SIX: A Conclusion of Sorts -- Notes -- Bibliography and Suggested Readings -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z Summary In this rich ethnography of Oaxaca, Mexico, the authors look at the lives of people that are often marginalized: the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellectuals publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-305) and index Notes 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 10, 2021) digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Social groups -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez Cultural pluralism -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez Poor -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez Sex workers -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez People with disabilities -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez Gay people -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez Lesbians -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez Artists -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez Intellectuals -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Sex workers People with disabilities Lesbians Intellectuals Cultural pluralism Artists Gay people Poor Social groups Social conditions Armut Homosexualität Soziale Situation Identiteit. Stadssociologie. Subcultuur. Homoseksuelen. Transseksuelen. Prostituees. Gehandicapten. Pauvres -- Mexique -- Oaxaca. SUBJECT Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico) -- Social conditions Subject Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juárez Oaxaca de Juárez Oaxaca (Mexique) -- Conditions sociales. Form Electronic book Author Coen, Tanya L. (Tanya Leigh), author Moore-Jazayeri, Marsha, editor ISBN 9780292731790 0292731795

Other Titles Streets, bedrooms, and patios Ethnographic portraits of street kids, urban poor, transvestites, discapacitados, and other popular cultures

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