A return to servitude : Maya migration and the tourist trade in Cancún / M. Bianet Castellanos.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Castellanos, María Bianet
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Series:First peoples (2010)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : phantoms of modernity
  • Devotees of the Santa Cruz : two family histories
  • Modernizing indigenous communities: agrarian reform and the cultural missions
  • Indigenous education, adolescent migration, and wage labor
  • Civilizing bodies : learning to labor in Cancún
  • Gustos, goods, and gender : reproducing Maya social relations
  • Becoming Chingún/a : Maya subjectivity, development narratives, and the limits of progress
  • The phantom city : rethinking tourism as development after Hurricane Wilma
  • Epilogue : resurrecting phantoms, resisting neoliberalism
  • Appendix : Kin chart of Can Tun and May Pat families.