Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras / Edition 1

by Adrienne Pine

Overview

"Honduras is violent." Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas—violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry—Pine explores the daily relationships and routines of urban Hondurans. She views their lives in the context of the vast economic footprint on and ideological domination of the region by the United States, powerfully elucidating the extent of Honduras's dependence. She provides a historically situated ethnographic analysis of this fraught relationship and the effect it has had on Hondurans' understanding of who they are. The result is a rich and visceral portrait of a culture buffeted by the forces of globalization and inequality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520255449
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/07/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Adrienne Pine is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Washington, DC

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Violence
2. Alcohol
3. Maquiladoras
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Pine has written a path-breaking book that forms an analytical bridge between the structures of neoliberalism and daily life for the poor who live within its midst."—Estudios
Interdisciplinarios De America Latina Y El Caribe (Eial)

Editorial Reviews

Pine has written a path-breaking book that forms an analytical bridge between the structures of neoliberalism and daily life for the poor who live within its midst.

Estudios Interdisciplinarios De America Latina Y El Caribe (Eial)

Pine has written a path-breaking book that forms an analytical bridge between the structures of neoliberalism and daily life for the poor who live within its midst.

Estudios Ícaro|Ícaro|Ícaro|Interdisciplinarios De America Latina Y El Caribe (Eial)