Inside a Uniform Imaginary: Gender, Politics, and Aesthetics in Peruvian Technical Education.
This article explores the rise of private, postsecondary technical schools (ISTs) in the rapidly expanding Amazonian city of Tarapoto, Peru, and particularly their appeal for young women. In Peru, the rise of the for-profit technical school comes at a historical conjuncture with the decline of a vio...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 578 - 598 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2017
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