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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: J. T. Way , John T WayPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.20cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780822351207ISBN 10: 082235120 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 16 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Grand Tikal Futura: Put1. Like Sturdy Little Animals : Making the Modern Anti-Modern, 1920s-1944ting the Mayan in the Mall 1 1. Like Sturdy Little Animals : Making the Modern Anti-Modern, 1920s-1944 13 2. Chaos and Rationality: The Dialectic of the Guatemalan Ghetto 41 3. Oficios de su Sexo: Gender, the Informal Economy, and Anticommunist Development 67 4. Making the Immoral Metropolis: Infrastructure, Economics, and War 94 5. Executing Capital: Green Revolution, Genocide, and the Transition to Neoliberalism 124 6. A Society of Vendors: Contradictions and Everyday Life in the Guatemalan Market 152 7. Cuatro Gramos Norte: Fragmentation and Concentration in the Wake of Victory 181 Appendix. A Grass-roots List of Transnationals in Guatemala, circa 1978 210 Notes 217 Glossary 277 Bibliography 279 Index 301ReviewsFinally, 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 Author InformationJ. T. Way is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Georgia State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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