| Description |
1 online resource (xlii, 259 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
First peoples -- new directions in Indigenous studies |
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First peoples (2010)
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 communities. Indeed, Maya migrants make up over a third of the city's population. A Return to Servitude is an ethnography of Maya migration within Mexico that analyzes the foundational role Indigenous peoples play in the development of the modern nation-state. Focusing on tourism in the Yucatán Peninsula, M. Bianet Ca |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-230) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed September 21, 2016) |
| Subject |
Mayas -- Mexico -- Cancún -- Social conditions
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Mayas -- Migrations
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Migration, Internal -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
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Tourism -- Mexico -- Cancún
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HISTORY.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
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Mayas -- Migrations
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Mayas -- Social conditions
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Migration, Internal
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Social conditions
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Tourism
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| SUBJECT |
Cancún (Mexico) -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Mexico -- Cancún
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Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010022657 |
| ISBN |
9780816674992 |
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081667499X |
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1299946496 |
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9781299946491 |
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