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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castellanos, María Bianet.

Series:

First peoples (2010)

First peoples -- new directions in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Migrations.

Mayas.

Mayas--Mexico--Cancun--Social conditions.

Migration, Internal--Mexico--Yucatan (State).

Migration, Internal.

Tourism--Mexico--Cancun.

Tourism.

Cancún (Mexico)--Social conditions.

Cancún (Mexico).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7499-X

OCLC:

698116868