02936nam 22006494a 450 991078036680332120230207223227.0979-88-908753-6-50-8078-6223-1(CKB)111087027917592(EBL)413396(OCoLC)476237349(SSID)ssj0000126280(PQKBManifestationID)11141364(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126280(PQKBWorkID)10030177(PQKB)10451274(Au-PeEL)EBL413396(CaPaEBR)ebr10047164(MiAaPQ)EBC413396(EXLCZ)9911108702791759220020201d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe company they kept[electronic resource] migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 /Lara PutnamChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20021 online resource (315 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5406-9 0-8078-2732-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.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.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.Migrant agricultural laborersCosta RicaPuerto LimónSocial conditionsWomenCosta RicaPuerto LimónSocial conditionsBlack peopleCosta RicaPuerto LimónSocial conditionsSex roleCosta RicaPuerto LimónHistoryPower (Social sciences)Costa RicaPuerto LimónHistoryPuerto Limón (Costa Rica)Social conditionsPuerto Limón (Costa Rica)Economic conditionsMigrant agricultural laborersSocial conditions.WomenSocial conditions.Black peopleSocial conditions.Sex roleHistory.Power (Social sciences)History.306.3/6/097286109034Putnam Lara1158119MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780366803321The company they kept3789777UNINA