Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Home As A Place Of Exhibition And Performance: Mayan Household Transformations In Guatemala, Walter E. Little
Home As A Place Of Exhibition And Performance: Mayan Household Transformations In Guatemala, Walter E. Little
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the town of San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala, has been incorporated into transnational movements of people, commodities, and ideas through tourism, development, and religious evangelism. The Kaqchikel Mayas living there have long looked outward from their community as they embraced, ignored, or criticized these global flows. Contemporary Kaqchikel Mayas have incorporated these global flows into the organization and maintenance of their households, while giving them a local interpretation. Some families have made their homes a place to enact their culture through exhibitions and performances for tourists. Such performances are indicative of the strategies …
Review: Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking The (Fe)Male In The Works Of Oba Minako By Michiko Niikuni Wilson, Susanna Fessler Phd
Review: Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking The (Fe)Male In The Works Of Oba Minako By Michiko Niikuni Wilson, Susanna Fessler Phd
East Asian Studies Faculty Scholarship
Review of the book "Gender is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of Oba Minako" by Michiko Niikuni Wilson