Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
Biographic Data
| ID | 104849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Bachrach Ehlers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy Bachrach |
| FAMILY NAME | Ehlers |
| SIGNATURE | EHLERS T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
Ethnographic Sketch
Women Work Together: My Unforeseen Transition from Academic to Feminist Change Agent
Whether as professional endeavor or intimate personal experience, anthropologists are going beyond the ivory tower to work on projects where intervention and social change are the norm. This paper traces the journey of one academic as she ventures out of the classroom to become a social change agent late in her career. Discussion focuses on the dynamic process of applying twenty-five years of women and development studies to the creation of a cam…
Sugar's Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother
The "Exotic" and the "Domestic": Regions and Representation in Cultural Anthropology
Regional scholarship is an enduring feature of cultural anthropology. But how does work from different regions compare in terms of published scholarship? This article offers some preliminary answers based on a longitudinal study of ethnographic articles in major English-language journals over the past seven decades. The dominance of North America in the early decades of the 20th century has given way to articles on more
Women and the False Promise of Microenterprise
Since the 1980s, microenterprise development programs have proliferated in the United States, where they are widely praised as strategies for economic development and poverty alleviation, especially for low-income women and welfare mothers. Based on research in a highly respected urban center for women, this article argues that microenterprise development is more detrimental and problematic than it is purported to be. Two reasons are isolated. Fi…
The Reformation of Machismo. Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia. Elizabeth E. Brusco
Policy, politics, and aid: Three viewpoints on development
Fruzzetti, Lina and Ákos Östör. Culture and Change along the Blue Nile: Courts, Markets, and Strategies for Development. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1990. xxi + 230 pp. including references, research bibliography, and index. $32.95 paper. Varnis, Steven L. Reluctant Aid or Aiding the Reluctant? U.S. Food Aid Policy and Ethiopian Famine Relief. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1990. xi + 229 pp. including references and index. $32.95 cloth, $24.95 paper…
Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya
Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya. Ellen Kintz New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1990. 170 pp. $8.50 (paper). ISBN 0‐03‐032592‐7
Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya:Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya
Debunking Marianismo: Economic Vulnerability and Survival Strategies among Guatemalan Wives
is called a widow, but everyone knows she was abandoned by her husband after the birth of her third child. Carmen had to send her children to live with her mother since their father left her and her new husband refuses to raise another man's offspring. Dona Magdalena's husband drank up her wages, beat her when she complained about it, then spent the next two weeks with his lover, leaving Magdalena penniless. Rich or poor, in towns and villages ac…
Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry In Mexico's Frontier:For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry In Mexico's Frontier
Central America in the 1980s: Political Crisis and the Social Responsibility of Anthropologists
For most of the past decade, Central America has been wracked by revolution, counterrevolution, military repression, and massive dislocation that have affected the lives of millions of people. Yet despite these dramatic events, little anthropological research has been directed toward Central America in the 1980s. Analysis of the contents of seven major cultural anthropology journals from 1980 to 1986 shows no increased attention to the area over …
The Decline of Female Family Business: A Guatemalan Case Study
No abstract available for this article
The decline of female family business: A Guatemalan case study
Women and the False Promise of Microenterprise
Since the 1980s, microenterprise development programs have proliferated in the United States, where they are widely praised as strategies for economic development and poverty alleviation, especially for low-income women and welfare mothers. Based on research in a highly respected urban center for women, this article argues that microenterprise development is more detrimental and problematic than it is purported to be. Two reasons are isolated. Fi…
Debunking Marianismo: Economic Vulnerability and Survival Strategies among Guatemalan Wives
is called a widow, but everyone knows she was abandoned by her husband after the birth of her third child. Carmen had to send her children to live with her mother since their father left her and her new husband refuses to raise another man's offspring. Dona Magdalena's husband drank up her wages, beat her when she complained about it, then spent the next two weeks with his lover, leaving Magdalena penniless. Rich or poor, in towns and villages ac…
Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya
Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya. Ellen Kintz New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1990. 170 pp. $8.50 (paper). ISBN 0‐03‐032592‐7
Central America in the 1980s: Political Crisis and the Social Responsibility of Anthropologists
For most of the past decade, Central America has been wracked by revolution, counterrevolution, military repression, and massive dislocation that have affected the lives of millions of people. Yet despite these dramatic events, little anthropological research has been directed toward Central America in the 1980s. Analysis of the contents of seven major cultural anthropology journals from 1980 to 1986 shows no increased attention to the area over …
The Decline of Female Family Business: A Guatemalan Case Study
No abstract available for this article
The decline of female family business: A Guatemalan case study
For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry In Mexico's Frontier:For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry In Mexico's Frontier
Central America in the 1980s: Political Crisis and the Social Responsibility of Anthropologists
For most of the past decade, Central America has been wracked by revolution, counterrevolution, military repression, and massive dislocation that have affected the lives of millions of people. Yet despite these dramatic events, little anthropological research has been directed toward Central America in the 1980s. Analysis of the contents of seven major cultural anthropology journals from 1980 to 1986 shows no increased attention to the area over …
Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya
Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya. Ellen Kintz New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1990. 170 pp. $8.50 (paper). ISBN 0‐03‐032592‐7
Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya:Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya
Debunking Marianismo: Economic Vulnerability and Survival Strategies among Guatemalan Wives
is called a widow, but everyone knows she was abandoned by her husband after the birth of her third child. Carmen had to send her children to live with her mother since their father left her and her new husband refuses to raise another man's offspring. Dona Magdalena's husband drank up her wages, beat her when she complained about it, then spent the next two weeks with his lover, leaving Magdalena penniless. Rich or poor, in towns and villages ac…
Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
Policy, politics, and aid: Three viewpoints on development
Fruzzetti, Lina and Ákos Östör. Culture and Change along the Blue Nile: Courts, Markets, and Strategies for Development. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1990. xxi + 230 pp. including references, research bibliography, and index. $32.95 paper. Varnis, Steven L. Reluctant Aid or Aiding the Reluctant? U.S. Food Aid Policy and Ethiopian Famine Relief. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1990. xi + 229 pp. including references and index. $32.95 cloth, $24.95 paper…
The Reformation of Machismo. Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia. Elizabeth E. Brusco
Women and the False Promise of Microenterprise
Since the 1980s, microenterprise development programs have proliferated in the United States, where they are widely praised as strategies for economic development and poverty alleviation, especially for low-income women and welfare mothers. Based on research in a highly respected urban center for women, this article argues that microenterprise development is more detrimental and problematic than it is purported to be. Two reasons are isolated. Fi…
The "Exotic" and the "Domestic": Regions and Representation in Cultural Anthropology
Regional scholarship is an enduring feature of cultural anthropology. But how does work from different regions compare in terms of published scholarship? This article offers some preliminary answers based on a longitudinal study of ethnographic articles in major English-language journals over the past seven decades. The dominance of North America in the early decades of the 20th century has given way to articles on more
Sugar's Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother
Women Work Together: My Unforeseen Transition from Academic to Feminist Change Agent
Whether as professional endeavor or intimate personal experience, anthropologists are going beyond the ivory tower to work on projects where intervention and social change are the norm. This paper traces the journey of one academic as she ventures out of the classroom to become a social change agent late in her career. Discussion focuses on the dynamic process of applying twenty-five years of women and development studies to the creation of a cam…
Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
Ethnographic Sketch
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Business (4 works) · History (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works)