A return to servitude
Subtitle: Maya migration and the tourist trade in Cancún
By: M. Bianet Castellanos
Series: First peoples -- new directions in indigenous studies; First peoples (2010)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780816656158
Subjects: Social conditions; Tourism; Migrations; Mayas; Internal Migration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : phantoms of modernity; title: Devotees of the Santa Cruz : two family histories; title: Modernizing indigenous communities: agrarian reform and the cultural missions; title: Indigenous education, adolescent migration, and wage labor; title: Civilizing bodies : learning to labor in Cancún; title: Gustos, goods, and gender : reproducing Maya social relations; title: Becoming Chingún/a : Maya subjectivity, development narratives, and the limits of progress; title: The phantom city : rethinking tourism as development after Hurricane Wilma; title: Epilogue : resurrecting phantoms, resisting neoliberalism; title: Appendix : Kin chart of Can Tun and May Pat families.