Cultural Logics and Global Economies : : Maya Identity in Thought and Practice / / Edward F. Fischer.

As ideas, goods, and people move with increasing ease and speed across national boundaries and geographic distances, the economic changes and technological advances that enable this globalization are also paradoxically contributing to the balkanization of states, ethnic groups, and special interest...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I Contexts of Study
  • 1 Maya Culture and Identity Politics
  • 2 Tecpán and Patzún
  • PART II Global Processes and Pan-Maya Identity Politics
  • 3 Guatemalan Political Economies and the World System
  • 4 The Rise of Pan-Maya Activism
  • 5 Constructing a Pan-Maya Identity in a Postmodern World
  • PART III Maya Identity as Lived Experience in Tecpán and Patzún
  • 6 Souls, Socialization, and the Kaqchikel Self
  • 7 Hearth, Kin, and Communities
  • 8 Local Forms of Ethnic Resistance
  • 9 Economic Change and Cultural Continuity
  • PART IV Conclusion
  • 10 Convergent Strategies and Cultural Logics
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index