Reckoning with Change in Yucatan engages with how best to look upon and respond to change, arguing that this debate is an important arena for negotiating local belonging and a force of transformation in its own right. For residents of Chunchucmil, a historic rural community in Yucatan, Mexico, history is anything but straightforward. Living in what is both a defunct 19th-century hacienda estate and a vibrant Catholic pilgrimage site, Chunchucmilenos reckon past, present, and future in radically different ways. For example, while some use the aging estate buildings to weave a history of economic decline and push for revitalization by hotel developers, others highlight the growing fame of the Virgin of the Rosary in the attached church and vow to defend the site from developer interference. By exploring how past and future are channeled through changing built environments, landscapes, sacred relics, and legal documents, this ethnographic study details how the politics of change provide Chunchucmilenos with a common language for debating commitments to place and each another in the present. Against Western notions of 'History' as a relatively coherent account of change, the book suggests we reframe it as an ongoing performance that is always fractured, democratic, and morally tinged.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Postgraduate
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4 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 4 farbige Abbildungen, 41 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 41 s/w Abbildungen
4 Halftones, color; 41 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, color; 41 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 14 mm
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978-1-032-61190-7 (9781032611907)
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Jason Ramsey is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada. He received his M.A. and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.
1. Introduction
2. Of Sheep, Saliva, and Broken Bones: Anti-social Appetites and The Things of the Ancestors
3. Patrimonio, Consumption, and Gossip
4. 'Division in Chunchucmil': Narratives of Rupture and Redevelopment
5. 'The Paper Talks'
6. A Church Grows in Yucatan
7. Chunchucmil's Two Virgins: The Immaculate Reproduction and the Excesses of Growth
8. "You Don't Know How it Came to Be": Duenos, 'Knowledge' and Belonging
9. Conclusion
10 Coda
