The Mayan in the Mall : Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala /
This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Like sturdy little animals" : making the modern anti-modern, 1920s-1944
- Chaos and rationality : the dialectic of the Guatemalan ghetto
- Oficios de su sexo : gender, the informal economy, and anticommunist development
- Making the immoral metropolis : infrastructure, economics and war
- Executing capital : green revolution, genocide, and the transition to neoliberalism
- A society of vendors : contradictions and everyday life in the Guatemalan market
- Cuatro gramos norte : fragmentation and concentration in the wake of victory.