A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancun - Couverture souple

Castellanos, M. Bianet

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816656150 ISBN 13 : 9780816656158

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 Castellanos examines how Cancún 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

M. Bianet Castellanos is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816656150
• ISBN 13: 9780816656158
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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