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Liliana R. GoldínPublication Details
BookUniversity of Arizona Press2009Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F1435.3.E27 G66 2009 ON HOLDSHELF New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Further, she shows that as rural people take ondiverse economic activities, they also reinterpret their views on such mattersas accumulation, cooperation, competition, division of labor, and communitysolidarity.Global Maya explores global processes in local terms, revealing the interplayof traditional values, household economics, and the inescapable conditions ofdemographic growth, a shrinking land base, and a global economy always lookingfor cheap labor. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Global highlands : in context, in theory, and in practice
- Economic ideology in culture : oral tradition
- Economic ideology in petty industrial production : tailors of San Francisco el Alto
- Economic ideology in petty commodity agricultural production : gardeners of San Pedro Almolonga
- Economic ideology in the production of nontraditional agricultural export crops
- Economic ideology in industrial wage labor : from land to factory - - It takes work to shape our thinking : global Guatemala in local terms
- Appendix A. A complete transcription of three examples of oral tradition
- Appendix B. A summary of the San Francisco el Alto case studies
- Appendix C. Selected items from survey research
ISBN
- 9780816526888
- 0816526885
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