Год выпуска: 2009 Автор: Liliana R. Goldin Издательство: Страниц: 264 ISBN: 0816526885
Описание
In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands ofthe global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how ruralpeoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins theglobal market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way oflearning about Guatemala?s changing economy.For more than a decade, Liliana Goldin observed in highland towns boththe intensification of various forms of production and their growing links towider markets. In this first book to compare economic ideology across a rangeof production systems, she examines how people make a living and how theythink about their options, practices, and constraints. Drawing on interviews andsurveys?even retellings of traditional narratives?she reveals how contemporaryMaya respond to the increasingly globalized yet locally circumscribed conditionsin which they work.Goldin presents four case studies: cottage industries devoted to garmentproduction, vegetable growing for...
