Guatemala, from where the Rainbow Takes Its Colors
Author: Joaquín Muñoz
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 346
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Author: Joaquín Muñoz
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 346
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 290
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 290
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Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780876544440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuatemala is one of the few places on earth where traditional textile arts from ancient cultures survive: Mayan spinners and weavers still produce the traditional motifs developed by their ancestors, but modern dyes add brilliant, luminous color to their textiles. This book presents 150 superb photographs by Gianni Vecchiato, providing a magnificent view of the textiles people, and daily life of Guatemala. It is truly a feast for the eye and spirit.
Author: Ronald Hilton
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 9780810812758
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Author: Richard Harris
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781569750391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter E. Little
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-05
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0292788304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2005 — Best Book Award – New England Council of Latin American Studies Selling handicrafts to tourists has brought the Maya peoples of Guatemala into the world market. Vendors from rural communities now offer their wares to more than 500,000 international tourists annually in the marketplaces of larger cities such as Antigua, Guatemala City, Panajachel, and Chichicastenango. Like businesspeople anywhere, Maya artisans analyze the desires and needs of their customers and shape their products to meet the demands of the market. But how has adapting to the global marketplace reciprocally shaped the identity and cultural practices of the Maya peoples? Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Walter Little presents the first ethnographic study of Maya handicraft vendors in the international marketplace. Focusing on Kaqchikel Mayas who commute to Antigua to sell their goods, he explores three significant issues: how the tourist marketplace conflates global and local distinctions. how the marketplace becomes a border zone where national and international, developed and underdeveloped, and indigenous and non-indigenous come together. how marketing to tourists changes social roles, gender relationships, and ethnic identity in the vendors' home communities. Little's wide-ranging research challenges our current understanding of tourism's negative impact on indigenous communities. He demonstrates that the Maya are maintaining a specific, community-based sense of Maya identity, even as they commodify their culture for tourist consumption in the world market.