Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520255449)

"Honduras is violent." Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas--violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry--Pine explores the daily relationships and routines of urban Hondurans. She views their lives in the context of the vast economic footprint on and ideological domination of the region by the United States, powerfully elucidating the extent of Honduras's dependence. She provides a historically situated ethnographic analysis of this fraught relationship and the effect it has had on Hondurans' understanding of who they are. The result is a rich and visceral portrait of a culture buffeted by the forces of globalization and inequality.

Author: Adrienne Pine
ISBN-10: 0520255445
ISBN-13: 9780520255449
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2008
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.13w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/25/2008 pg. 16