{"product_id":"a-day-in-the-hole-daniella-gandolfo-9780226843377","title":"A Day in the Hole: Risk, Loss, and Excess in Downtown Lima","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA single day in a semilegal market in Lima, Peru, reveals a social world that defies conventional economic logic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the heart of Lima's historic center, the markets of El Hueco (\"The Hole\") and sprawling Mesa Redonda pulse with life, with thousands of vendors selling everything from knockoff electronics to religious icons. In \u003ci\u003eA Day in \"The Hole\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e anthropologist Daniella Gandolfo immerses readers in a single, tumultuous day--the thirty-fourth anniversary of a vendors' cooperative--while examining the dynamics that sustain these marketplaces. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through a blend of cinematic storytelling and incisive anthropological insight, Gandolfo reveals a world with its own unique codes. She inspects how vendors embrace expenditure over profit and instability over order, and moving through the sights and sounds of El Hueco and Mesa Redonda, she finds a dissident economy that is as much about survival as it is about spectacle. Gandolfo redefines how we think about urban economies and the unexpected ways these defiant communities thrive in this textured portrait of Lima's markets and the people who animate them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniella Gandolfo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226843378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226843377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Daniella Gandolfo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47304711307519,"sku":"9780226843377","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_236431e1-76b0-462a-be6b-a4ff3434842f.jpg?v=1758828932","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-day-in-the-hole-daniella-gandolfo-9780226843377","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}