| Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in the Yucatan Contributor(s): Hervik, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 9057023407 ISBN-13: 9789057023408 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.897 |
| LCCN: 2002421762 |
| Series: Studies in Anthropology and History |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Cultural Region - Mexican |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the external, academic categories of the Maya, and seeks to transcend the paradoxical and incongruent relationship between the social spaces that breathe life into the categories. The notion of shared social experience is introduced to embody a focus on reflexivity that goes beyond the subjective position of the author and helps demystify the coexisting subjectivities characteristic of ethnographic fieldwork. It provides a basis for overcoming the exclusive focus on author, text, and discourse in contemporary postmodernist ethnography, while still conveying important ethnographic information. |