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Selling handicrafts to tourists has brought the Maya peoples of Guatemala into the world market. Vendors from rural communities now offer their wares to more than 500,000 international tourists annually in the marketplaces of larger cities such as Antigua, Guatemala City, Panajachel, and Chichicastenango. Like businesspeople anywhere, Maya artisans analyze the desires and needs of their customers and shape their products to meet the demands of the market. But how has adapting to the global marketplace reciprocally shaped the identity and cultural practices of the Maya peoples? Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Walter Little presents the first ethnographic study of Maya handicraft vendors in the international marketplace. Focusing on Kaqchikel Mayas who commute to Antigua to sell their goods, he explores three significant issues: &sum how the tourist marketplace conflates global and local distinctions. &sum how the marketplace becomes a border zone where national and international, developed and underdeveloped, and indigenous and non-indigenous come together. &sum how marketing to tourists changes social roles, gender relationships, and ethnic identity in the vendors' home communities. Little's wide-ranging research challenges our current understanding of tourism's negative impact on indigenous communities. He demonstrates that the Maya are maintaining a specific, community-based sense of Maya identity, even as they commodify their culture for tourist consumption in the world market.

Cakchikel Indians --- Maya business enterprises --- Culture and tourism --- Tourists --- Antigua Region (Guatemala) --- Commerce --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Attitudes --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.

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"Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Political Control explores the entanglements and contradictions of legal and illegal practices across multiple cultures"--

Social norms. --- Illegality. --- Ethnology --- Normes sociales. --- Illégalité. --- Enquêtes de terrain (ethnologie) --- Fieldwork.

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Textile fabrics. --- Textile industry. --- Economic development. --- Economic anthropology. --- Textiles et tissus --- Textiles et tissus --- Développement économique --- Anthropologie économique --- Industrie et commerce

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North and Central American indian languages --- Guatemala