Professor Linda J. Seligmann spent a month conducting research in the handicraft and agricultural produce markets in Cusco, Peru. Recipient of a Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund grant, she is looking at how neoliberal economic measures, globalization, and the sharp rise in tourism have affected the livelihoods, political engagement, and cultural and gendered identities of vendors. Seligmann has studied informal market economies in Cusco for twenty years, thus giving her the chance to track these changes over a relatively long period of time. She has noticed some striking changes. One is that produce vendors have been forced to abandon their informal stalls and the streets, and have been systematically displaced into warehouses far from the city center, making it far more difficult for them to reach clients and to organize politically. At the same time, vendors of handicrafts have seized on the celebration of indigenous images and some have been successful in taking advantage of its commodification. Their very dependence on tourism makes them very reluctant as well to pursue political protests or demonstrations.