Floating market

For many decades, hundreds of Venezuelan men in search of economic opportunity have sailed forty miles across the Caribbean from Venezuela to the island of Curaçao in small wooden boats to sell tropical fruits and vegetables in Curaçao's floating market, leaving behind their families in the coa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaufman, Joan
Other Authors: Ajami, Jocelyn M., Jansen, Elsio A., Shavit, Iftach
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. Documentary Educational Resources 2003, 2003
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 1
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Online Access:
Collection: Ethnographic Video Online Vol. 1 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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