A return to servitude : Maya migration and the tourist trade in Cancún /

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As a free trade zone and Latin America's most popular destination, Cancún, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved in the production of transnational capital but also forms an integral part of the state's modernization plan for rural, Indigenous communit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castellanos, María Bianet (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
Colección:First peoples (2010)
Temas:
Mayas > Mexico > Cancún > Social conditions.
Mayas > Migrations.
Migration, Internal > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Tourism > Mexico > Cancún.
Mayas > Mexique > Cancún > Conditions sociales.
Migration intérieure > Mexique > Yucatán (État)
HISTORY.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
Mayas > Migrations
Mayas > Social conditions
Migration, Internal
Social conditions
Tourism
Cancún (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Mexico > Cancún
Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Chingón/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.

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