Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity

Little, Walter E.

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“…The ethnohistoric descriptions of markets in the Maya region, although limited, also place markets in the site center (Roys 1943;Scholes and Roys 1968;Tozzer 1941). The modern, ethnographic accounts of marketplaces in Mesoamerica also note the central placement of markets, commonly in plazas that are also associated with Christian churches (Carey 2008;Cook and Diskin 1976;Little 2004;Redfield 1930;Vogt 1969). The Early Classic marketplace proposed for Chunchucmil in the northern Yucatan (Dahlin 2003(Dahlin , 2009Dahlin and Ardren 2002;Dahlin et al 2007) has several major roadways converging in a large, open space.…”

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The Elusive Maya Marketplace: An Archaeological Consideration of the Evidence

Shaw

2012

J Archaeol Res

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The modeling of ancient Maya economies has been a dynamic area of archaeological research in the past few decades, but in most cases there has been little attention on how goods actually changed hands. Through an overview of the literature, this paper considers marketplace exchange as one mechanism of distribution. Researchers have proposed a number of physical features and artifact characteristics that may be expected in association with marketplace activity, and new methods of data collection have been offered that can be used to build a case for marketplace exchange. What remains is the challenge of developing strategies to identify ancient Maya marketplaces convincingly through archaeological excavation.

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The Elusive Maya Marketplace: An Archaeological Consideration of the Evidence

Shaw

2012

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“…In parallel fashion to Castañeda's efforts to problematise the identity of Yucatan, a similar veering away from reductionist understandings of identity based on binary oppositions of ethnic identity has also taken place in Guatemala (Hendrickson 1995, Little 2004, Hale 2006. 4.…”

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Grieving formestizaje: alternative approaches to Maya identity in Yucatan, Mexico

Reyes‐Foster

2012

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This article takes as its point of departure the highly contested theoretical terrain of 'Maya' identity in Yucatan, Mexico. Set in the physical terrain of a state psychiatric hospital, this article uses a framework of identity culled from the narrative of a young woman, 'Claudina', committed to its wards, to argue that being 'in-between' categories of ethnic identity, an experience she characterises as a painful sense of ambiguous loss, can be fruitfully analysed using an analytical framework of ethnic identity introduced by Claudina herself. Specifically, I argue that categories of identity culled from Claudina's story -mestizaje and elegancia -represent a valuable opportunity to think about how power dynamics and relationships operate in situations of ambivalent identities and social suffering. To this end, I use Claudina's language as a point of departure for understanding the lived experience of everyday life in Yucatan today.But there is an elegance that comes from being a professional, and another that comes from mestizaje. My grandmother is a great wise woman, who has always taught me how things should be done in order to do them well.

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“…The commoditization of translation work cannot be blamed exclusively on the actions of Internet-based corporations, however. In fact, capitalist exchange in Maya communities has been constantly expanding since the end of the 19th century (Tax, 1956;Smith and Moors, 1990;Woodward, 1993; Asturias de Barrios, 1994, Little, 2004Fischer and Benson, 2006;Foxen, 2007;DeHart, 2010;Goldin, 2011). Crucial milestones include the rise of the coffee plantation economy in the 19th century, the expansion of orthodox Catholicism and Pentecostalism at the expense of the traditional Maya religion since the 1930's, substantial increases in access to formal education since the 1950's, the horrific violence and social dislocation provoked by state counterinsurgency in the 1970's and 1980's and the tidal wave of migration to the US since the mid-1980mid- 's (Warren, 1978Brintnall, 1979;Falla, 1980;Cambranes, 1985;Rojas Lima, 1988, Falla, 1992Cantón Delgado, 1998, Garrard-Burnett, 1998Schirmer, 1999;González, 2002;Manz, 2004;Camus, 2007;Foxen, 2007;Falla, 2008;Grandia, 2009).…”

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Bill Gates speaks K'ichee'! The corporatization of linguistic revitalization in Guatemala

Romero

2016

Language & Communication

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Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity

Cited by 50 publications

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The Elusive Maya Marketplace: An Archaeological Consideration of the Evidence

The Elusive Maya Marketplace: An Archaeological Consideration of the Evidence

Grieving formestizaje: alternative approaches to Maya identity in Yucatan, Mexico

Bill Gates speaks K'ichee'! The corporatization of linguistic revitalization in Guatemala

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