1st Edition
Reckoning with Change in Yucatán Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda
By Jason Ramsey
Copyright 2024
254 Pages
4 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
4 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
4 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Reckoning with Change in Yucatán engages with how best to look upon and respond to change, arguing that this debate is an important arena for negotiating local belonging and a force of transformation in its own right. For residents of Chunchucmil, a historic rural community in Yucatán, Mexico, history is anything but straightforward. Living in what is both a defunct 19th-century hacienda estate... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Of Sheep, Saliva, and Broken Bones: Anti-social Appetites and The Things of the Ancestors
3. Patrimonio, Consumption, and Gossip
4. ‘Division in Chunchucmil’: Narratives of Rupture and Redevelopment
5. ‘The Paper Talks’
6. A Church Grows in Yucatán
7. Chunchucmil’s Two Virgins: The Immaculate Reproduction and the Excesses of Growth
8. “You Don’t Know How it Came to Be”: Dueños, ‘Knowledge’ and Belonging
9. Conclusion
10 Coda
Biography
Jason Ramsey is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada. He received his M.A. and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.
