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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812209803321

Autore

Castellanos Maria Bianet

Titolo

A return to servitude : Maya migration and the tourist trade in Cancun / / M. Bianet Castellanos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8166-7499-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

First peoples -- new directions in indigenous studies

Disciplina

972/.65

Soggetti

Mayas - Migrations

Mayas - Mexico - Cancun - Social conditions

Migration, Internal - Mexico - Yucatan (State)

Tourism - Mexico - Cancun

Cancun (Mexico) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Chingún/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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 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 Yucatán Peninsula, M. Bianet Ca