Cultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice

by Edward Fischer

As ideas, goods and people move with increasing ease and speed across national boundaries and geographic distances, the economic changes and technological advances that enable this globalization are also paradoxically contributing to the balkanization of states, ethnic groups, and special interest movements. Exploring how this process is playing out in Guatemala, this is a synthesis of the local and global factors that have led Guatemala's indigenous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725302
• ISBN13: 9780292725300
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"