Life Is Hard - Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua

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List of contents

Acknowledgments 
This Book and Its Title 
Personas 
Introduction 
PART I. LIFE 
I. Junk yards 
II. Beating One's Wife 
III. Murdering One's Husband's Lover 
IV. Coping with Less: Compadrazgo, Friendship,
and Provisioning 
v. Chicken Soup; or, Gossip, Tradition,
and the Anthropologist 
VI. Censoring La semana comica 
PART II. SOME LIVES 
VII. Rolando 
VIII. Flora 
IX. Osvaldo 
X. Elvis 
XI. Roger 
Xll. Maximo 
XIII. Jaime 
XIV. Jazmina 
XV. Virgilio 
PART III. POWER, POLITICS,
AND PERSONAL LIFE 
XVI. Dealing with Danger 
XVII. The Negro of the Family 
XVIII. Subject Honor, Object Shame 
Conclusion 
Notes 
References 
Index 
 

About the author

Roger N. Lancaster teaches anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University, where he directs the Cultural Studies Ph.D. program. He edited (with Micaela di Leonardo) The Gender/Sexuality Reader (1997) and is the author of The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture (California, 2003).

Summary

Documents the effects of war and embargo on the cultural and economic fabric of Nicaraguan society. This book reveals the enduring character of Nicaraguan society as he records the experiences of three families and their community through times of war, hyperinflation, dire shortages, and political turmoil.

Product details

• Authors: Roger N. Lancaster, Lancaster Roger N.
• Assisted by: Roger N. Lancaster (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.1994
• EAN: 9780520089297
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08929-7
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Centennial Book; Centennial Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Nicaragua, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989