Life is hard : machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua /

Main Author: Lancaster, Roger N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • This Book and Its Title
  • Personas
  • pt. I. Life. I. Junkyards. 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
  • pt. II. Some Lives. VII. Rolando. VIII. Flora. IX. Osvaldo. X. Elvis. XI. Roger. XII. Maximo. XIII. Jaime. XIV. Jazmina. XV. Virgilio
  • pt. III. Power, Politics, and Personal Life. XVI. Dealing with Danger. XVII. The Negro of the Family. XVIII. Subject Honor, Object Shame.