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To Be In Between: The Cholas as Market Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Linda J. Seligmann
Linda J. Seligmann
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University of Wisconsin
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When I did my first field research in Peru in 1974, I was struck by the forceful, energetic, and at times bawdy market women known as cholas. They stood out because they appeared fearless, astute, different, and unpredictable. I could ot find a counterpart among Peruvian males. The cholas feigned neither humility toward rich white foreigners nor unbridled admiration for their ways. They inhabited a world distinct from that of either the Quechua peasantry or the westernized mestizo but easily interacted with both campesinos and mestizos. They freely insulted whom they pleased; they engaged in wheeling and dealing and stood their ground but could also be surprisingly generous, almost religiously so.

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Demands of the Market Place
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 694 - 721
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1989

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