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Finally, a history of Guatemala City, a place key to national history that most scholars flee from! J. T. Way has unearthed a wealth of material from archival, literary and oral sources. In striking and vibrant detail, Way skillfully traces the history of neighborhoods and of individuals from the first half of the twentieth century to today and he uses this to open up a remarkable and original discussion of the play of ethnicity and modernity in the making of a cultural texture and urban political economy that uses the 'Mayan' in the absence of Mayas or worse, in the presence of their oppression. The Mayan in the Mall brings to life the city's residents in this 'city of vendors' and simultaneously delivers a devastating and brilliant critique of development. --Deborah T. Levenson, co-editor of The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Finally, a history of Guatemala City, a place key to national history that most scholars flee from! J. T. Way has unearthed a wealth of material from archival, literary and oral sources. In striking and vibrant detail, Way skilfully traces the history of neighbourhoods and of individuals from the first half of the twentieth century to today and he uses this to open up a remarkable and original discussion of the play of ethnicity and modernity in the making of a cultural texture and urban political economy that uses the 'Mayan' in the absence of Mayas or worse, in the presence of their oppression. The Mayan in the Mall brings to life the city's residents in this 'society of vendors' and simultaneously delivers a devastating and brilliant critique of development. Deborah T. Levenson, co-editor of The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics The quirky mind of J. T. Way reveals a Guatemala that will enlighten even seasoned hands, one deformed by development in myriad modernist guise, a curse to most of its citizens, the blessing of a venal few. W. George Lovell, Queen's University, Canada

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J. T. Way is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Georgia State University.

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