A return to servitude : Maya migration and the tourist trade in Cancún

A return to servitude : Maya migration and the tourist trade in Cancún /

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 communiti...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Castellanos, María Bianet (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010
Series:First peoples (2010)
Subjects:
Mayas > Mexico > Cancún > Social conditions.
Mayas > Migrations.
Migration, Internal > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Tourism > Mexico > Cancún.
Cancún (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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