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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Washed Ashore / A Seaside View -- PART I: Historical Fact and Anthropological Fiction -- 1: The Miskito Coast: History, Place, Identity -- 2: Gendered Ethnography in Kuri -- PART II: Social Economies of Power -- 3: Village of Women: Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters -- 4: Staying Afloat: Economics of the Matrigroup -- 5: Into the Deep: The Lobster Diver -- PART III: Supernatural Women -- 6: For the Love of Money: Sex and Magic -- 7: Fishy Tales: The Mermaid -- Conclusion: Caribbean Vibrations -- Afterword -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover |
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Interspersed with short stories, songs, and incantations, The Mermaid and the Lobster Diver demonstrates the archetypes of femininity and masculinity within Miskitu society, highlighting the power associated with women's sexuality-as manifested in bot |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries |
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Print version: Hobson Herlihy, Laura Mermaid and the Lobster Diver : Gender, Sexuality, and Money on the Miskito Coast
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,c2012 9780826350930
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Electric utilities -- Government ownership -- United States.;Electric utilities -- Privatization -- United States.;Electric utilities -- United States
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Hobson Herlihy, Laura
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