Chapulines

Some of them were quite urban.

And that was a really interesting thing, was realizing that some of these women were living in quite urbanized settings and going out into other towns to get Japanese.

So we got a much more diverse picture.

The women tended to be non-indigenous, again, largely from rural and poor backgrounds, but not all of them.

And so this was one of these places where the family itself And its connections were really, really important.

So generally, you have generations of women selling Chapulines.

And for us, we were talking to vendors.

And they would tell us things like, I learned from my mom.

Sometimes they wouldn't know that the market was closed until they got there because or sometimes they would get to the market and then it would close after they had arrived.

So it was really destabilizing.

And as the women were trying, the Chapulines were trying to kind of figure out how to adapt.

They started working out of their homes a lot more than they had in the past.

Some of them were quite urban.

And that was a really interesting thing, was realizing that some of these women were living in quite urbanized settings and going out into other towns to get Japanese.

So we got a much more diverse picture.

The women tended to be non-indigenous, again, largely from rural and poor backgrounds, but not all of them.

And, you know, what would you do with it? So, you know, the women tend to be focused on large sales, regular sales to a local clientele.

And so this was one of these places where the family itself And its connections were really, really important.

So generally, you have generations of women selling Chapulines.

And, you know, for us, we were talking to vendors and they would tell us things like, you know, I learned from my mom.