Global Maya : Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala /

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In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldin, Liliana R.
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Español
Published: Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, 2009
Series:UPCC book collections on Project Muse.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Globalization > Economic aspects > Guatemala.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Guatemala.
Mayas > Guatemala > Economic conditions.
Guatemala > Rural conditions.
Guatemala > Economic conditions > 1985-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Global highlands : in context, in theory, and in practice
  • Economic ideology in culture : oral tradition
  • Economic ideology in petty industrial production : tailors of San Francisco el Alto
  • Economic ideology in petty commodity agricultural production : gardeners of San Pedro Almolonga
  • Economic ideology in the production of nontraditional agricultural export crops
  • Economic ideology in industrial wage labor : from land to factory
  • It takes work to shape our thinking : global Guatemala in local terms.

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