Esperanza Speaks Esperanza Speaks
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Esperanza Speaks

Confronting a Century of Global Change in Rural Panama

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Description de l’éditeur

Esperanza Speaks examines a century-long process of socioeconomic change in rural Panama through the experiences of one woman, Esperanza Ruiz, and four generations of her family. The intimate narrative shows how ordinary people, through their choices and actions, are affected by and, in turn, can affect how history unfolds. Readers see Esperanza’s family as both victims and protagonists in their own histories. Born into rural poverty with limited options, they still find small openings to try to improve their lives. Sometimes successful, sometimes not, they survive by drawing on their only abundant resource: each other. Based on twenty field visits over the course of fifty years, Esperanza Speaks is the result of a dedicated anthropologist’s long-term engagement with the individuals of a single community, and a beautiful example of ethnographic storytelling.

GENRE
Essais et sciences humaines
SORTIE
2021
20 mai
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
290
Pages
ÉDITIONS
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
TAILLE
7,8
Mo

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