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La Fuga Es El Mensaje: Andrea Maturana Y Las Citas Imposibles De Una Escritura En Transicion, Alvaro Kaempfer
La Fuga Es El Mensaje: Andrea Maturana Y Las Citas Imposibles De Una Escritura En Transicion, Alvaro Kaempfer
Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Faculty Publications
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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 …