Reckoning With Change in Yucatan - Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Ramsey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9780367253660
• ISBN: 978-0-367-25366-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: The Anthropology of History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Mexico, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Yucatán, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General