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"Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and imagining life. And yet, tourism also creates jobs, encourages infrastructure development, and in many places inspires the only possibility of hope and well-being. Stuck with Tourism explores the ambivalent nature of tourism by drawing on ethnographic evidence from the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula, a region voraciously transformed by tourism development over the past forty years. Contrasting labor and lived experiences at the beach resorts of Cancún, protected natural enclaves along the Gulf coast, historical buildings of the colonial past, and maquilas for souvenir production in the Maya heartland, this book explores the moral, political, ecological, and everyday dilemmas that emerge when, as Yucatán's inhabitants put it, people get stuck in tourism's grip."--Provided by publisher.

Tourism --- Central America --- Mexico

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Indians of Central America --- History. --- Central America --- Civilization.

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"The book addresses indigenous peoples' claims to autonomy and self-determination with a focus on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. It demonstrates the tensions between nation states and indigenous peoples seeking to realize these rights and offers important lessons for similar projects across Latin America"--

Indians of Central America --- Politics and government.

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This book, 'Realizing Value in Mesoamerica,' edited by Scott R. Hutson and Charles Golden, explores the dynamics of desire and demand in ancient Mesoamerican economies. It adopts theoretical and comparative approaches from social sciences and economics to integrate ancient Mesoamerican economic practices into broader studies of economic history. The book covers various topics, including the value of artifacts, reciprocity in economies, and the role of exchange and tribute in Maya societies. It aims to facilitate dialogue and new approaches to understanding ancient economies by comparing different regions and cultures. The intended audience includes scholars and students of archaeology, anthropology, and economic history.

Indians of Central America. --- Maya pottery.

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This edited volume presents work from both Mesoamerican-based and U.S.-based researchers who use a combination of cultural ethnohistorical, (bio)archaeological, dental, and chemical data in an interdisciplinary approach to research population history in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The goals for such a project are threefold: 1) to encourage more cross-fertilization of work between fields and subfields, in order to more appropriately address large regional questions of population history; 2) to explicitly address the theoretical and methodological challenges and rewards of interdisciplinary work; and 3) to introduce a larger audience to the state of interdisciplinary work in Mesoamerica.

Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Antiquities. --- Mexico --- Central America