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Article: Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
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- The Americas
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- July 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Academy of American Franciscan History Jul 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity. By Walter E. Little. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. x, 320. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth; $22.95 paper.
Globalization and tourism are on anthropologists' radar for good reason. Increasing global interconnectedness is changing, sometimes profoundly, the way we view ourselves and others. Little's book follows in the tradition of Graburn's 1976 volume on world ethnic and tourist art, but focuses on the Kaqchikel Maya who sell crafts (tipica) in the marketplaces of Antigua, Guatemala. The author's fluency in Spanish and Kaqchikel, and his experiences in Guatemala as ...