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This chapter introduces the book’s two central figures: Ranulfo Juárez, owner of a Mexican-American corner store in Salem, Oregon, and Peter Wogan, a white anthropology professor from a nearby university. During a first meeting with Peter in 2005 at the store, Ranulfo’s humor, energy, and optimism are already apparent. The chapter ends with a flash-forward on Ranulfo’s ensuing effort to add a bakery to his store, with hints at the quest’s psychological and social dimensions.
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Wogan, P. (2017). Cutting the Cloth. In: Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52264-7_1
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