The company they kept : migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / Lara Putnam
- Author
- Putnam, Lara
- Published
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
- Copyright Date
- ©2002
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- 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.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- United Fruit Company—Employees—Social conditions
- United Fruit Company
- Geschichte 1870-1960
- 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
- Travailleurs agricoles migrants—Costa Rica—Puerto Limón—Conditions sociales
- Femmes—Costa Rica—Puerto Limón—Conditions sociales
- Personnes noires—Costa Rica—Puerto Limón—Conditions sociales
- Rôle selon le sexe—Costa Rica—Puerto Limón—Histoire
- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)—Costa Rica—Puerto Limón—Histoire
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Anthropology—Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Public Policy—Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Popular Culture
- Black people—Social conditions
- Economic history
- Employees—Social conditions
- Migrant agricultural laborers—Social conditions
- Power (Social sciences)
- Sex role
- Social conditions
- Women—Social conditions
- Arbeiter
- Saisonarbeiter
- Soziale Situation
- Immigranten
- Sociale relaties
- Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)—Social conditions
- Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)—Economic conditions
- Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)—Conditions sociales
- Puerto Limón (Costa Rica)—Conditions économiques
- Costa Rica—Puerto Limón
- Schwärze
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0807862231 (electronic bk.)
9780807862230 (electronic bk.)
0807827320 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807827321 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0807854069 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807854068 (pbk. ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index.
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