A Return to Servitude - Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancun (Paperback)

As a free trade zone and Latin America's most popular destination, Cancun, 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 communities. Indeed, Maya migrants make up over a third of the city's population.
"A Return to Servitude" is an ethnography of Maya migration within Mexico that analyzes the foundational role indigenous peoples play in the development of the modern nation-state. Focusing on tourism in the Yucatan Peninsula, M. Bianet Castellanos examines how Cancun came to be equated with modernity, how this city has shaped the political economy of the peninsula, and how indigenous communities engage with this vision of contemporary life. More broadly, she demonstrates how indigenous communities experience, resist, and accommodate themselves to transnational capitalism.
Tourism and the social stratification that results from migration have created conflict among the Maya. At the same time, this work asserts, it is through engagement with modernity and its resources that they are able to maintain their sense of indigeneity and community.

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	First Peoples: New Directions Indigenous
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	November 2010
Authors:	M. Bianet Castellanos
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-8166-5615-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8166-5615-0
Barcode:	9780816656158

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