The Mayan in the Mall : Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Grand Tikal Futura: ‘‘Putting the Mayan in the Mall’’ -- One. ‘‘Like Sturdy Little Animals’’: Making the Modern Anti-Modern, 1920s–1944 -- Two. Chaos and Rationality: The Dialectic of the Guatemalan Ghetto -- Three. Oficios de su Sexo: Gend...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Grand Tikal Futura: ‘‘Putting the Mayan in the Mall’’ -- One. ‘‘Like Sturdy Little Animals’’: Making the Modern Anti-Modern, 1920s–1944 -- Two. Chaos and Rationality: The Dialectic of the Guatemalan Ghetto -- Three. Oficios de su Sexo: Gender, the Informal Economy, and Anticommunist Development -- Four. Making the Immoral Metropolis: Infrastructure, Economics, and War -- Five. Executing Capital: Green Revolution, Genocide, and the Transition to Neoliberalism -- Six. A Society of Vendors: Contradictions and Everyday Life in the Guatemalan Market -- Seven. Cuatro Gramos Norte: Fragmentation and Concentration in the Wake of Victory -- Appendix. A Grass-roots List of Transnationals in Guatemala, circa 1978 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung