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Mayas in the Marketplace: Mayas live and work in this performativespace,a "touristic borderzone,"according to Little, wherethey craft genderedidentities andmany vendorsare women ,emphasizingdifferentaspectsof their identitiesdependingon the circumstance-now tipica vendorsare women,now indios,now Maya women,now Kaqchikelspeakers,and so on. Little builds this complexcompositesketchof tfpica vendorsas his narrativefollows them throughthe streetsand formal marketplacesof Antigua as well as to their homesin the westernGuatemalanhighlandcommunitiesof SantaAntonio Aguas Calientesand Santa CatarinaPalop6-which have alsobecomeplaceswheretipica is sold.
Someof the approachesLittle takesas he peelsawayhis multilayeredanalysisof the social spacesin which Maya tfpica vendorsmake their identitiesare more successfulthan others. For example,his useof Michel Foucault'snotion of "heterotopia"doesnot seemto move his analysisforward in any profoundway. And his useof de Certeau'sdistinctionbetweentactic and strategy,althoughintriguingas a meansof thinking throughthe role of power in shaping Maya identity-makingpracticesin differentcontexts home,tipica marketplace,and street , might havebeenmore fully developedthroughoutthe entireethnography.
Overall,however, Little convincinglyand deftly builds his multisitedaccountof the strategic and frequently tactical ways that Guatemalantipica vendorsdeploymultiple identitiesin a very complex socialspace.
Moreover,the straightforward,accessiblenarrativestyle will have broadappeal to a diverseaudience,making it an ideal choicefor undergraduate coursesand, in pafticular, for an introductorycourse or sectionof a course examiningthe global lives of the world's indigenous peoples.
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This spaceand the practicesthat give it shapeare peeledawayand examinedchapterby chapter. Please enter recipient e-mail address es. Open to the public Book; Illustrated English Show 0 more libraries Little is correct in emphasizing the degree to which indigenous communities are no longer bounded entities because of the extent to which their inhabitants are mobile, and part of larger national and transnational geopolitical systems. View freely available titles:
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