S. Ashley Kistler
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038358
- eISBN:
- 9780252096228
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038358.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines how Chamelqueños define prestige and status and how market women accrue prestige through their roles as marketers. It argues that Chamelqueños earn prestige in their daily ...
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This chapter examines how Chamelqueños define prestige and status and how market women accrue prestige through their roles as marketers. It argues that Chamelqueños earn prestige in their daily pursuits and social interactions. Participating in resurgence movements, helping to preserve and promote Q'eqchi' culture, working to support others, showing strong personal character, joining municipal and family celebrations, and in some cases, accruing financial wealth and resources, are among the many ways by which Chamelqueños garner prestige and define their status. For some Chamelqueños, marketing also serves as a way to generate status. The recognition earned through these means generates immortality, ensuring that their legacies will persist and be remembered by future generations of community members long after they are gone.Less
This chapter examines how Chamelqueños define prestige and status and how market women accrue prestige through their roles as marketers. It argues that Chamelqueños earn prestige in their daily pursuits and social interactions. Participating in resurgence movements, helping to preserve and promote Q'eqchi' culture, working to support others, showing strong personal character, joining municipal and family celebrations, and in some cases, accruing financial wealth and resources, are among the many ways by which Chamelqueños garner prestige and define their status. For some Chamelqueños, marketing also serves as a way to generate status. The recognition earned through these means generates immortality, ensuring that their legacies will persist and be remembered by future generations of community members long after they are gone.
S. Ashley Kistler
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038358
- eISBN:
- 9780252096228
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038358.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores the significance that the market plays both as an economic institution and a center of socialization for Chamelqueños. In doing so, it describes life in the market and analyzes ...
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This chapter explores the significance that the market plays both as an economic institution and a center of socialization for Chamelqueños. In doing so, it describes life in the market and analyzes marketing as women's vocation. It argues that Chamelqueños classify the market as a center of Q'eqchi' personhood and the embodiment of ancestral tradition. Vendors sustain local families by providing them with critical access to necessary goods and by connecting to them to an institution representative of their ancestors. In the market, they exchange money and commodities not just for capital wealth, but also for Q'eqchi' personhood.Less
This chapter explores the significance that the market plays both as an economic institution and a center of socialization for Chamelqueños. In doing so, it describes life in the market and analyzes marketing as women's vocation. It argues that Chamelqueños classify the market as a center of Q'eqchi' personhood and the embodiment of ancestral tradition. Vendors sustain local families by providing them with critical access to necessary goods and by connecting to them to an institution representative of their ancestors. In the market, they exchange money and commodities not just for capital wealth, but also for Q'eqchi' personhood.
S. Ashley Kistler
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038358
- eISBN:
- 9780252096228
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038358.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines marketing as the foundation of personhood for market women, their families, and Chamelco as a whole. Chamelco's vendors confront capitalist values, transforming capitalism's ...
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This chapter examines marketing as the foundation of personhood for market women, their families, and Chamelco as a whole. Chamelco's vendors confront capitalist values, transforming capitalism's potentially alienating social effects into a model of Q'eqchi' identity for all. Although they participate in capitalist exchanges, they do so not simply for financial motives, but because marketing is an ancient occupation central to the town's historical identity. As vendors, Chamelco's women use exchange to define the logics of the Q'eqchi' house (junkab'al), the primary entity through which Chamelqueños define and live personhood. The chapter also sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the intersections of kinship, global capitalism, indigenous identity, and memory.Less
This chapter examines marketing as the foundation of personhood for market women, their families, and Chamelco as a whole. Chamelco's vendors confront capitalist values, transforming capitalism's potentially alienating social effects into a model of Q'eqchi' identity for all. Although they participate in capitalist exchanges, they do so not simply for financial motives, but because marketing is an ancient occupation central to the town's historical identity. As vendors, Chamelco's women use exchange to define the logics of the Q'eqchi' house (junkab'al), the primary entity through which Chamelqueños define and live personhood. The chapter also sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the intersections of kinship, global capitalism, indigenous identity, and memory.
S. Ashley Kistler
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038358
- eISBN:
- 9780252096228
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038358.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly ...
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As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies. In spite of this history, the people of San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, have effectively resisted significant changes to their cultural identities. Chamelco residents embrace new technologies, ideas, and resources to strengthen their indigenous identities and maintain Maya practice in the 21st century, a resilience that sets Chamelco apart from other Maya towns. Unlike the region's other indigenous women, Chamelco's Q'eqchi' market women achieve both prominence and visibility as vendors, dominating social domains from religion to local politics. These women honor their families' legacies through continuation of the inherited, high-status marketing trade. This book describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity. Working at the intersections of globalization, kinship, gender, and memory, the book presents a firsthand look at Maya markets as a domain in which the values of capitalism and indigenous communities meet.Less
As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies. In spite of this history, the people of San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, have effectively resisted significant changes to their cultural identities. Chamelco residents embrace new technologies, ideas, and resources to strengthen their indigenous identities and maintain Maya practice in the 21st century, a resilience that sets Chamelco apart from other Maya towns. Unlike the region's other indigenous women, Chamelco's Q'eqchi' market women achieve both prominence and visibility as vendors, dominating social domains from religion to local politics. These women honor their families' legacies through continuation of the inherited, high-status marketing trade. This book describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity. Working at the intersections of globalization, kinship, gender, and memory, the book presents a firsthand look at Maya markets as a domain in which the values of capitalism and indigenous communities meet.
Laurent Dubois
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781382998
- eISBN:
- 9781781383971
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382998.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter situates Haitian studies in a multivalent and dialogic border space by analyzing the work of Fernando Coronil, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Sidney Mintz on peasant culture from a new ...
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This chapter situates Haitian studies in a multivalent and dialogic border space by analyzing the work of Fernando Coronil, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Sidney Mintz on peasant culture from a new perspective. More specifically, it reflects on the problem of thinking Haiti through anthrohistory by drawing on Mintz's writings on Haiti. The chapter begins by considering one of the central tensions surrounding anthropological work on Haiti: that of seeing it, on the one hand, as a product and expression of a unique history and, on the other, as fully integrated within a diagnostic of broader global histories and processes. It then examines how and why the question of gender has found itself pushed to the edge of much theorizing despite its acknowledged importance in understanding Haiti. It also discusses Mintz's 1964 description of the deployment of capital by Haitian market women in relation to anthropological work and to the future of Haitian anthrohistory.Less
This chapter situates Haitian studies in a multivalent and dialogic border space by analyzing the work of Fernando Coronil, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Sidney Mintz on peasant culture from a new perspective. More specifically, it reflects on the problem of thinking Haiti through anthrohistory by drawing on Mintz's writings on Haiti. The chapter begins by considering one of the central tensions surrounding anthropological work on Haiti: that of seeing it, on the one hand, as a product and expression of a unique history and, on the other, as fully integrated within a diagnostic of broader global histories and processes. It then examines how and why the question of gender has found itself pushed to the edge of much theorizing despite its acknowledged importance in understanding Haiti. It also discusses Mintz's 1964 description of the deployment of capital by Haitian market women in relation to anthropological work and to the future of Haitian anthrohistory.
Francesca Degiuli
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199989010
- eISBN:
- 9780190607968
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199989010.003.0003
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
This chapter explores how global and regional macroprocesses become embedded in the local reality of one specific country, in this case Italy, generating new realities, new jobs, and new economic and ...
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This chapter explores how global and regional macroprocesses become embedded in the local reality of one specific country, in this case Italy, generating new realities, new jobs, and new economic and social relations. Specifically, the chapter looks at how the feminization of migration generated through political and economic transformations both in sending and receiving countries came to intersect with the growing need for short and long-term eldercare in Italy, a need generated not only by demographic processes but also by cultural, social, and economic transformations. In addition, the chapter explores the role that migration policies, both at the regional and national level, play in creating a segmented, gendered, and racialized labor force.Less
This chapter explores how global and regional macroprocesses become embedded in the local reality of one specific country, in this case Italy, generating new realities, new jobs, and new economic and social relations. Specifically, the chapter looks at how the feminization of migration generated through political and economic transformations both in sending and receiving countries came to intersect with the growing need for short and long-term eldercare in Italy, a need generated not only by demographic processes but also by cultural, social, and economic transformations. In addition, the chapter explores the role that migration policies, both at the regional and national level, play in creating a segmented, gendered, and racialized labor force.
Anne Wren (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199657285
- eISBN:
- 9780191745133
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199657285.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Political Economy
In recent decades, the world’s most developed economies— commonly labeled the advanced industrial democracies— have faced massive structural change. Industrial sectors, which once formed the economic ...
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In recent decades, the world’s most developed economies— commonly labeled the advanced industrial democracies— have faced massive structural change. Industrial sectors, which once formed the economic backbone of these societies, have shrunk inexorably in size and economic significance, while service sectors have taken over as the primary engines of output and employment expansion. While all of the most economically advanced democracies are experiencing deindustrialization, however, significant variations exist in the rate of service sector expansion, or in the nature of this expansion across countries— that is, in the types of service sectors which expand (e.g., traded or nontraded, high or low productivity, ICT intensive or non) and in the type of service employment ( e.g., high or low skilled) which is created. These differences are closely related to a range of distributive outcomes such as wage inequality, insider– outsider divisions, and women’s participation and position in the labor market. They are also linked with distinctive electoral dynamics, and patterns of partisan politics and political coalition formation. In this volume, we focus our analysis on this cross- national variation. We argue that it is rooted in differences in political- institutional configurations at the national level: in the ways in which different types of socioeconomic regimes ( or “ varieties of capitalism”) manage the service transition. And we explore its economic, distributional, and ultimately political implications. The book is a systematic attempt to understand the distinct political economy of postindustrial societies, and the varying forms which it takes in different nation- institutional contexts.Less
In recent decades, the world’s most developed economies— commonly labeled the advanced industrial democracies— have faced massive structural change. Industrial sectors, which once formed the economic backbone of these societies, have shrunk inexorably in size and economic significance, while service sectors have taken over as the primary engines of output and employment expansion. While all of the most economically advanced democracies are experiencing deindustrialization, however, significant variations exist in the rate of service sector expansion, or in the nature of this expansion across countries— that is, in the types of service sectors which expand (e.g., traded or nontraded, high or low productivity, ICT intensive or non) and in the type of service employment ( e.g., high or low skilled) which is created. These differences are closely related to a range of distributive outcomes such as wage inequality, insider– outsider divisions, and women’s participation and position in the labor market. They are also linked with distinctive electoral dynamics, and patterns of partisan politics and political coalition formation. In this volume, we focus our analysis on this cross- national variation. We argue that it is rooted in differences in political- institutional configurations at the national level: in the ways in which different types of socioeconomic regimes ( or “ varieties of capitalism”) manage the service transition. And we explore its economic, distributional, and ultimately political implications. The book is a systematic attempt to understand the distinct political economy of postindustrial societies, and the varying forms which it takes in different nation- institutional contexts.
Alejandra Bronfman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469628691
- eISBN:
- 9781469628714
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628691.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Economic History
This chapter relates the workings of circuits of information in U.S.-occupied Haiti (1915-1934). Upon their arrival, Marines encountered rich yet elusive circuits of news, rumor and gossip driven by ...
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This chapter relates the workings of circuits of information in U.S.-occupied Haiti (1915-1934). Upon their arrival, Marines encountered rich yet elusive circuits of news, rumor and gossip driven by Haiti’s peripatetic market women. Attempts to access or bypass these circuits with nascent wireless and telephone networks had limited success. These circuits came together most strikingly in the U.S. Marines’ use of radio sets as torture devices to electrocute Haitians during interrogations.Less
This chapter relates the workings of circuits of information in U.S.-occupied Haiti (1915-1934). Upon their arrival, Marines encountered rich yet elusive circuits of news, rumor and gossip driven by Haiti’s peripatetic market women. Attempts to access or bypass these circuits with nascent wireless and telephone networks had limited success. These circuits came together most strikingly in the U.S. Marines’ use of radio sets as torture devices to electrocute Haitians during interrogations.
Katie Jarvis
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190917111
- eISBN:
- 9780190917142
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190917111.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Economic History
The conclusion compares the Dames’ understanding of work, gender, and citizenship with other revolutionary and postrevolutionary imaginings. In contrast to citizenship couched in a priori rights and ...
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The conclusion compares the Dames’ understanding of work, gender, and citizenship with other revolutionary and postrevolutionary imaginings. In contrast to citizenship couched in a priori rights and rooted in electoral practices, the Dames framed citizenship as contingent and grounded in social experience. Their vision of citizenship resonated with the symbiotic relationships and reciprocal duties at the core of the social contract. The market women asserted that they earned civic membership and the right to make claims on the state through useful work that served society. Their labor assumed occupational forms through their marketplace trade, civic forms through their political activism, and gendered forms through their contributions as republican mothers. However, by 1799, the deputies had conferred full electoral and economic citizenship on male heads of households with property. Nonetheless, the Dames’ early political influence and the deputies’ economic legislation overturn arguments that democratic citizenship emerged fully formed and masculine at the start of the French Revolution. Finally, the market women illustrate how, while transitioning from a corporate to capitalist world, individuals became autonomized and atomized in parallel arenas of work and politics. The Dames’ political emphasis on whom one’s labor serves rather than where one’s labor is performed complicates scholarly categories of a masculine public sphere and a feminine private sphere in the nineteenth century. From the revolutionary marketplace, the Dames force us to rethink the relationship among work, gender, and modern citizenship.Less
The conclusion compares the Dames’ understanding of work, gender, and citizenship with other revolutionary and postrevolutionary imaginings. In contrast to citizenship couched in a priori rights and rooted in electoral practices, the Dames framed citizenship as contingent and grounded in social experience. Their vision of citizenship resonated with the symbiotic relationships and reciprocal duties at the core of the social contract. The market women asserted that they earned civic membership and the right to make claims on the state through useful work that served society. Their labor assumed occupational forms through their marketplace trade, civic forms through their political activism, and gendered forms through their contributions as republican mothers. However, by 1799, the deputies had conferred full electoral and economic citizenship on male heads of households with property. Nonetheless, the Dames’ early political influence and the deputies’ economic legislation overturn arguments that democratic citizenship emerged fully formed and masculine at the start of the French Revolution. Finally, the market women illustrate how, while transitioning from a corporate to capitalist world, individuals became autonomized and atomized in parallel arenas of work and politics. The Dames’ political emphasis on whom one’s labor serves rather than where one’s labor is performed complicates scholarly categories of a masculine public sphere and a feminine private sphere in the nineteenth century. From the revolutionary marketplace, the Dames force us to rethink the relationship among work, gender, and modern citizenship.
