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Pink Gold : Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico.
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ISBN: 1477328033 Year: 2023 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,

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A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico. The "shrimp ladies," locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell seafood in open-air markets, forming an extralegal but key part of the economy built around this "pink gold." Over time, they struggled to evolve from marginalized peddlers to local icons depicted in popular culture, even as they continue to work at an open-air street market. Pink Gold documents the shrimp traders' resilience and resourcefulness, from their early conflicts with the city, state, and federal authorities and forming a union, to carving out a physical space for a seafood market, and even engaging in conflicts with the Mexican military. Drawing from her two decades of fieldwork, María L. Cruz-Torres explores the inspiring narrative of this overlooked group of women involving grassroots politics, trans-border and familial networking, debt and informal economic practices, personal sacrifices, and simple courage. She argues that, amid intense economic competition, their success relies on group solidarity that creates interlocking networks of mutual trust, or confianza, that in turn enable them to cross social and political boundaries that would typically be closed to them. Ultimately, Pink Gold offers fresh insights into issues of gender and labor, urban public space, the street economy, commodities, and globalization.

Tsukiji : the fish market at the center of the world
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ISBN: 0520220234 9780520220249 0520220242 0520923588 1597349674 9780520923584 9780520220232 9781597349673 Year: 2004 Volume: 11 Publisher: Los Angeles : University of California Press,

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Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji-the world's largest marketplace for seafood-is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as tens of thousands of tons of seafood from every ocean of the world quickly change hands in Tsukiji's auctions and in the marketplace's hundreds of tiny stalls. In this absorbing firsthand study, Theodore C. Bestor-who has spent a dozen years doing fieldwork at fish markets and fishing ports in Japan, North America, Korea, and Europe-explains the complex social institutions that organize Tsukiji's auctions and the supply lines leading to and from them and illuminates trends of Japan's economic growth, changes in distribution and consumption, and the increasing globalization of the seafood trade. As he brings to life the sights and sounds of the marketplace, he reveals Tsukiji's rich internal culture, its place in Japanese cuisine, and the mercantile traditions that have shaped the marketplace since the early seventeenth century.

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Markets --- Seafood industry --- History --- Tokyo-to Chuo Oroshiuri Shijo --- Tokyo (Japan) --- Social life and customs --- JP / Japan - Japon --- 338.727 --- 381.2 --- J4438 --- J4390.12 --- J4510 --- J4152 --- -Seafood industry --- -Food industry and trade --- Public markets --- Commerce --- Fairs --- Market towns --- Veeteelt en producten van de veeteelt en van de visvangst. --- Plaats waar de handel wordt gedreven. --- Japan: Economy and industry -- agriculture -- fishing industries --- Japan: Economy and industry -- local economic history and geography -- Kantō -- Tōkyō 23 ward area (Edo) --- Japan: Economy and industry -- commerce and trade -- wholesale and distribution --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- food --- Tokyo --- -History --- Tōkyō-to Chūō Oroshiuri Shijō --- -Tokyo (Japan) --- Markets. --- Seafood industry - Japan - Tokyo - History. --- To?kyo?-to Chu?o? Oroshiuri Shijo?-- History. --- To ̄kyo ̄-to Chu ̄o ̄ Oroshiuri Shijo ̄. --- Tokyo (Japan) - Social life and customs. --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- -Veeteelt en producten van de veeteelt en van de visvangst. --- Food industry and trade --- Veeteelt en producten van de veeteelt en van de visvangst --- Plaats waar de handel wordt gedreven --- Tōkyō-to Chūō Oroshiuri Shijō --- Tokyo (Japan). --- Central Warehouse Market (Tokyo, Japan) --- Tsukiji Central Wholesale Market --- 東京都中央卸売市場 --- 東京都中央卸賣市場 --- Tsukiji Market --- Tsukiji shijō --- Markets - Japan - Tokyo - History --- Seafood industry - Japan - Tokyo - History --- Tokyo (Japan) - Social life and customs --- 17th century. --- asian culture. --- asian history. --- case study. --- east asia. --- economics. --- economy. --- ethnography. --- fieldwork. --- fishmonger. --- foodways. --- globalization. --- international. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese food. --- marketplace. --- public health. --- seafood trade. --- seafood. --- sushi chef. --- sushi. --- technology. --- tokyo. --- tourism. --- tourist trap. --- tourist. --- tsukiji. --- Marchés --- Produits de la pêche --- Tōkyō (Japon) --- Japon --- Histoire --- Industrie et commerce --- Moeurs et coutumes

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