Lecture: A Day in "The Pit"

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Date/Time:Thursday, 23 Oct 2014 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Location:416 College of Design
Cost:Free
URL:www.design.iastate.edu/events.php?CID=3027
Contact:Clare Cardinal-Pett
Phone:515-294-8711
Channel:College of Design
Categories:Lectures
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Why is a popular market in downtown Lima, Peru, often condemned as a vile and dangerous place? Daniella Gandolfo, associate professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University, will recount a day's activities at El Hueco (the Pit) in the context of Marx and Engels' "lumpenproletariat" and Hernando de Soto's "informality" to answer this question.