UID:
edocfu_9959677301302883
Format:
1 online resource (329 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-9478-2
,
1-280-48725-9
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9786613582485
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
"Like sturdy little animals" : making the modern anti-modern, 1920s-1944 -- Chaos and rationality : the dialectic of the Guatemalan ghetto -- Oficios de su sexo : gender, the informal economy, and anticommunist development -- Making the immoral metropolis : infrastructure, economics and war -- Executing capital : green revolution, genocide, and the transition to neoliberalism -- A society of vendors : contradictions and everyday life in the Guatemalan market -- Cuatro gramos norte : fragmentation and concentration in the wake of victory.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5131-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5120-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822394785
