Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Walter Little presents the first ethnographic study of Maya handicraft vendors in the international marketplace.
Trade Review[A]n important addition to the literature on ethnic arts in Latin America, tourism, cultural identity, social change, and globalization. * The Americas *
This book is not only very readable, but also highly informative in the subject area of performance, as well as place, and how indigenous peoples have become engaged in, and deal with, that slippery phenomenon called globalization. * Journal of Latin American Geography *
Walter E. Little paints a complex and nuanced portrait of Maya identity formation in
Mayas in the Marketplace. * American Ethnologist *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Subjectivity and Fieldwork among Kaqchikel Vendors
- Chapter 1. Guatemala as a Living History Museum
- Chapter 2. Place and People in a Transnational Borderzone City
- Chapter 3. Antigua Típica Markets and Identity Interaction
- Chapter 4. Mercado de Artesanía Compañía de Jesús and the Politics of Vending
- Chapter 5. Gendered Marketplace and Household Reorganization
- Chapter 6. The Places Kaqchikel Maya Vendors Call Home
- Chapter 7. Home as a Place of Exhibition and Performance in San Antonio Aguas Calientes
- Chapter 8. Marketing Maya Culture in Santa Catarina Palopó
- Conclusion: Traditions and Commodities
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
