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
Main Author: Kistler, S. Ashley, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women merchants.
Manners and customs.
Kekchi Indians > Social life and customs.
Kekchi Indians > Economic conditions.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Kekchi Indians > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Social life and customs.
Kekchi Indians > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Economic conditions.
Kekchi Indians > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Industries.
Women merchants > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco.
Kekchi women > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Social conditions.
Kekchi women > Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco > Economic conditions.
Guatemala > San Juan Chamelco.
San Juan Chamelco (Guatemala) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
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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