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Author Way, John T. (John Thomas), 1966- author.

Title The Mayan in the mall : globalization, development and the making of modern Guatemala / J.T. Way
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents "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
Summary 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 ghettos in the hemisphere
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-275, 278-299) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Economic development -- Social aspects -- Guatemala
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Guatemala
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Guatemala
Economic development -- Social aspects.
Economic history.
Globalization -- Economic aspects.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
SUBJECT Guatemala -- Economic conditions -- 1985- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003223
Subject Guatemala.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822394785
0822394782