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El siguiente artículo es una descripción breve del caso de algunas mujeres de la región de Cusco, en Perú, involucradas en la producción o en la venta de objetos étnicos para el mercado turístico y para la exportación. El análisis muestra que, mientras que en su discurso sobre el turismo y el comercio los actores enfatizan la equivalencia y el intercambio cultural, en la práctica la participación en estos circuitos tiende a reforzar las desigualdades existentes, tanto económicas como políticas.

Transnational policies affect alternative trade organizations that reinvest their profits in poorer communities. As transnational corporations expand, low–wage workers – particularly the women preferentially hired in this sector – initially find themselves with greater employment opportunities. These then decrease over time as traditional income sources and local businesses decline. Based on earlier ethnographic research in Lima, this article provides the framework for a new study to discern how trade regulations might affect projects that assist low–income women in Peru.

This article offers a brief description of the cases of some women living in the region of Cusco, Peru, who are involved in the production or sale of ethnic objects for the tourist and the export markets. The analysis shows that, while social agents usually emphasize culturalequality and exchange in their discourse, in practice their participation in these circuits tends to reinforce economic and political inequalities. ; El siguiente artículo es una descripción breve del caso de algunas mujeres de la región de Cusco, en Perú, involucradas en la producción o en la venta de objetos étnicos para el mercado turístico y para la exportación. El análisis muestra que, mientras que en su discurso sobre el turismo y el comercio los actores enfatizan la equivalencia y el intercambio cultural, en la práctica la participación en estos circuitos tiende a reforzar las desigualdades existentes, tanto económicas como políticas.

At present there is a resurgence of interest in the city as nexus and metaphor within conceptualizations of globalization. Debates concern the city, community, and neighborhood as units of study and the use of such terms to link spaces to race or ethnicity and then to social conditions. Within the United States there is an additional propensity by some to view certain cities as entirely distinct from others within the country and from those outside of it. However, this author is among those who consider urban-suburban units to be less helpful in representing current relations among groups of people than linkages among possibly distant sprawls and business districts. Speed of contact from this viewpoint alters configurations and expands an interest in the exchanges that cross borders, time zones, and hemispheres. Within the Americas in particular, deregulated north-south connections entrench certain avenues and cause new ones to be built for increased transactions and speed. This article is a condensed expression of some of the issues in identity and power that may be reconfigured along one such corridor, Interstate Highway 35, as it passes between northern Mexico and southern and central Texas.

This draws on extensive ethnographic and survey data from low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio to document the lapses in medical coverage that poor families experience and to reveal the extent of untreated medical conditions, delayed treatment, and irregular health care that women and children suffer

Accessible to non-specialists and researchers interested in ethnography, this volume offers an introduction into the uses of anthropology for engaging contemporary social issues. The editors' essay surveys the development of anthropological research from its early exotic, non-Western focus to today's debate over increasingly engaged approaches within a globalized society. The case studies utilize anthropology's hallmark ethnographic methodology to address issues ranging from refugee reception and recognition to fair trade, intercultural education, and encounters with Gypsy populations. - Il presente volume, accessibile sia ai non esperti che ai ricercatori interessati in etnografia, offre un'introduzione alle applicazioni dell'antropologia per affrontare temi sociali attuali. Il saggio introduttivo dei curatori offre una panoramica sullo sviluppo della ricerca antropologica, dagli inizi esotici, con un approccio non-occidentale, fino alla discussione odierna di atteggiamenti di crescente impegno nella nostra società globalizzata. I casi di studio raccolti nel volume utilizzano i metodi etnografici caratteristici dell'antropologia trattando vari argomenti, dall'accoglimento e il riconoscimento dei rifugiati al fair trade, dall'educazione interculturale agli incontri con la popolazione romani.