The Mayan in the Mall : Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Way, John T. (John Thomas), 1966- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Duke University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Globalization > Social aspects.
Globalization > Economic aspects.
Economic history.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Globalization > Economic aspects > Guatemala.
Globalization > Social aspects > Guatemala.
Economic development > Social aspects > Guatemala.
Guatemala.
Guatemala > Economic conditions > 1985-
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • "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.

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