El turismo en una comunidad maya yucateca: pasado, presente y probable futuro

Puerto, Elias Miguel Alcocer; Bascopé, Grace Lloyd; Cano, Nidelvia Vela

doi:10.22403/uqroomx/typ08/06

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“…The Yaxunah ejido is located in the northern Maya lowlands, in the central part of the Mexican state of Yucatán. Yaxunah itself is a town of about 600 people, many of whom are Yucatec Mayan speakers (Alcocer Puerto 2010; Hernández Álvarez 2014). Yaxunah's ejido lands include several pre-hispanic and Colonial-era archaeological sites, the most well-documented of which is Yaxuna (Figure 3), which was the political center of the central Yucatan region from the Middle Formative through much of the Classic period (Stanton et al 2010; Tiesler et al 2017).…”

Section: Tzacauil and Yaxunamentioning

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Walking Rural in Tzacauil, Yucatan, Mexico

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2022

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How were so-called rural Maya settlements experienced by the people who lived in them? In this article, I focus on the archaeology of walking in the small site of Tzacauil, Yucatan (outlying the much larger site of Yaxuna), to explore how experiences of rurality were historically and socially contingent. Walking produces and reproduces embodied understandings of place—and, as such, can yield a more dynamic conceptualization of rurality. In Formative Tzacauil (ca. 300 b.c.–a.d. 250), grounded walking, incorporated with and sensitive to terrain, coexisted alongside groundless walking on artificial surfaces (i.e., sacbes and built walkways) imposed onto terrain. I argue that an understanding of everyday walking in Formative Tzacauil was not unlike that of urbanizing Yaxuna. I propose that only in Classic Tzacauil (ca. a.d. 550–1100) did walking become categorically different from Yaxuna, and I discuss how that shift opens new avenues for inquiry into rurality as an embodied experience of place that was always subject to change.

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Section: Tzacauil and Yaxunamentioning

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Walking Rural in Tzacauil, Yucatan, Mexico

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2022

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“…Yucatec Mayan and Spanish are commonly spoken. Yaxunah maintains a local government building, elementary and junior high school, a small health clinic, several places of worship, a community center, and an open area for cooking demos and other group events [5][6][7][8][9]. Well into the 1980s, Yaxunah households traditionally relied on farming, gardening, and harvesting wild resources for their subsistence, but increasingly, souvenir crafting and other tourism-based cottage industries have become key to people's livelihoods [10].…”

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“…The CCY had evolved from the earlier ecotourism ventures of the 1990s. In contrast to those ventures, however, the CCY is locally supported and locally administered-while still working with a board of Mexican and North American academics and advisors with nonprofit experience [7,8]. As one of its earliest initiatives, the CCY facilitated the founding of a culinary tourism cooperative in 2005.…”

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Partaking in Culinary Heritage at Yaxunah, Yucatán during the 2017 Noma Mexico Pop-Up

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Ardren

2020

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In spring of 2017, celebrity chef René Redzepi opened a pop-up of his famed restaurant, Noma, on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. During its run, Noma Mexico worked closely with the town of Yaxunah, a Yucatec-Mayan speaking community in the peninsula’s interior, hiring women to make tortillas and acquiring local ingredients for the restaurant. For us—two archaeologists interested in past and present Maya food and agriculture who have worked in the Yaxunah community for years—this made the 2017 field season a compelling time to engage in culinary heritage. We share on-the-ground perspectives from our work with Yaxunah community members during a decisive spring for rural Yucatán’s globalizing food system. These perspectives offer a candid contribution to this special issue’s archive of community-based and heritage-engaged archaeological work in the Maya area.

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Now Serving Maya Heritage: Culinary Tourism in Yaxunah, Yucatan, Mexico

Ardren

2018

Food and Foodways

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El turismo en una comunidad maya yucateca: pasado, presente y probable futuro

Cited by 4 publications

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Walking Rural in Tzacauil, Yucatan, Mexico

Walking Rural in Tzacauil, Yucatan, Mexico

Partaking in Culinary Heritage at Yaxunah, Yucatán during the 2017 Noma Mexico Pop-Up

Now Serving Maya Heritage: Culinary Tourism in Yaxunah, Yucatan, Mexico

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