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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780366803321

Autore

Putnam Lara

Titolo

The company they kept [[electronic resource] ] : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / / Lara Putnam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908753-6-5

0-8078-6223-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/6/097286109034

Soggetti

Migrant agricultural laborers - Costa Rica - Puerto Limón - Social conditions

Women - Costa Rica - Puerto Limón - Social conditions

Black people - Costa Rica - Puerto Limón - Social conditions

Sex role - Costa Rica - Puerto Limón - History

Power (Social sciences) - Costa Rica - Puerto Limón - History

Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) Social conditions

Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica -- Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s -- Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s -- Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.

Sommario/riassunto

In the 19th century, migrants from the USA, across the Caribbean and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, drawn by the established banana plantations and economic booms, creating a very mixed population. This work explores the effects of this change on gender, kinship and community.