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Diversity characterises the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Within this city of half a million, residents are rising against traditional barriers of race and class, defining new gender roles, and expanding access for the disabled. In this rich ethnography of the city, Michael Higgins and Tanya Coen explore how these activities fit into the ordinary daily lives of the people of Oaxaca. Higgins and Coen focus their attention on groups that are often marginalised - the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellectuals.Blending portraits of and comments by group members with their own ethnographic observations, the authors reveal how such issues as racism, sexism, sexuality, spirituality, and class struggle play out in the people's daily lives and in grassroots political activism. By doing so, they translate the abstract concepts of social action and identity formation into the actual lived experiences of real people. Michael James Higgins is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado. Tanya L. Coen is Co-Director of Zocalero Creative Cultural Productions in San Francisco. Together they also wrote "Oigame! Oigame!: Struggle and Social Change in a Nicaraguan Urban Community".
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"What is remarkably powerful about this book is the fantastic humanity of its descriptions, feelings, characters, relationships, etc... At certain occasions it was amazingly impossible for me to put the book down: I could not help but want to know more." -Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-New World Studies, Florida International University
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Michael James Higgins is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado. Tanya L. Coen is Co-Director of Zocalero Creative Cultural Productions in San Francisco.
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- PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0292731337
- ISBN 13 9780292731332
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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