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List of contents
Prologue: Hope and despair in Cuetzalan 1. Introduction 2. Governing frames 3. Working the translocal field 4. The diachronic Magical Villages Program. Frames and technologies in motion 5. When pros turn pro: Community ambassadors and social order 6. Multicultourism in the Magical Village: Setting temporality and translocality 7. Networking/rooting: Ritual co-parenthood in Tzinacapan 8. Regenerative fiesta: ritual configuration of history, identity, and society Epilogue
About the author
Casper Jacobsen holds a PhD in American Indian Languages and Cultures, and is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen and the State University of New York at Albany, USA. His research focuses on the history and heritage of indigenous peoples in pre-Hispanic, colonial, and contemporary Latin America.
Summary
The book assesses current multiculturalist policies in Mexico and how they affect local indigenous populations. The book examines a state tourist initiative of "Magical Villages" where tourists can have special experiences linked to ideas of indigeneity, tradition and heritage. The argument is that this policy acts as a way to contain, constrain
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"Going beyond the sustainability and empowerment frameworks frequently employed in the tourism literature, Casper Jacobsen’s Tourism and indigenous heritage in Latin America: As observed through Mexico’s Magical Village Cuetzalan offers the reader a critical examination of the emergence of multicultourism, defined by the author as a neoliberal governmentality frame that fuses multicultural politics of recognition with tourism, while conceptualizing indigenous heritage as a ‘national resource’ to be exploited in tourism initiatives." - Laura Paola Vizcaino-Suárez, Journal of Heritage Tourism
