The Mayan in the mall
Subtitle: development, globalization, and the making of modern Guatemala
By: John T. Way
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780822351207; 9780822351313
Subjects: Economic development; Globalization; Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Like sturdy little animals" : making the modern anti-modern, 1920s-1944; title: Chaos and rationality : the dialectic of the Guatemalan ghetto; title: Oficios de su sexo : gender, the informal economy, and anticommunist development; title: Making the immoral metropolis : infrastructure, economics and war; title: Executing capital : green revolution, genocide, and the transition to neoliberalism; title: A society of vendors : contradictions and everyday life in the Guatemalan market; title: Cuatro gramos norte : fragmentation and concentration in the wake of victory.