A Return to Servitude : Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún /
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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2010]
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Table des matières:
- 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.


