Global Maya : work and ideology in rural Guatemala / Liliana R. Goldin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldin, Liliana R.

Series:

UPCC book collections on Project Muse.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Guatemala.

Agriculture.

Mayas--Guatemala--Economic conditions.

Mayas.

Guatemala--Economic conditions--1985-.

Guatemala.

Guatemala--Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2011, c2009.

Language Note:

Text in English; one appendix in Spanish.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-19168-1

0-8165-0117-3

OCLC:

797838735