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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452024503321

Autore

Goldin Liliana R

Titolo

Global Maya : Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala / / Liliana R. Goldín

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Ariz. : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2009

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013

©2009

ISBN

1-299-19168-1

0-8165-0117-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/42072818

Soggetti

Globalization - Economic aspects - Guatemala

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Guatemala

Mayas - Guatemala - Economic conditions

Electronic books.

Guatemala Rural conditions

Guatemala Economic conditions 1985-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Global highlands : in context, in theory, and in practice -- Economic ideology in culture : oral tradition -- Economic ideology in petty industrial production : tailors of San Francisco el Alto -- Economic ideology in petty commodity agricultural production : gardeners of San Pedro Almolonga -- Economic ideology in the production of nontraditional agricultural export crops -- Economic ideology in industrial wage labor : from land to factory -- It takes work to shape our thinking : global Guatemala in local terms.

Sommario/riassunto

In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of learning about Guatemala's changing economy.