Maya market women : power and tradition in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala /

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"As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial op...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kistler, S. Ashley, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
Subjects:
Kekchi women > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Economic conditions.
Kekchi women > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Social conditions.
Women merchants > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco.
Kekchi Indians > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Industries.
Kekchi Indians > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Economic conditions.
Kekchi Indians > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Social life and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Kekchi Indians > Economic conditions
Kekchi Indians > Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Women merchants
San Juan Chamelco (Guatemala) > Social life and customs.
Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Gender, kin, and markets in the land of peace
  • Continuity and memory in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala
  • Markets and marketers
  • Recognition and immortality in the market and beyond
  • All in the junkab'al
  • Marketing memory.

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