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Este libro es uno de los textos fundacionales de la antropología médica internacional. Fue publicado inicialmente en 1981 por el CIESAS (México DF) y llevaba décadas agotado. Su reedición, corregida y aumentada, forma parte del compromiso de la colección de Antropología Médica de Publicacions URV de poner a disposición de los investigadores y estudiantes los clásicos. El libro corresponde a una investigación realizada a finales de los setenta en Yucatán y supuso en su momento un tratamiento original de los problemas de enfermedad, salud y atención en un medio multicultural. Se trata de una aportación fundamental al estudio del pluralismo asistencial y una obra pionera en la introducción de los análisis basados en la obra de Antonio Gramsci y de Ernesto De Martino en la realidad latinoamericana.

Medical anthropology. --- Medicina. --- Antropología. --- Yucatán (Mexico : State) --- México. --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Anthropological aspects --- Yucatán (Mexico : Province) --- Quintana Roo (Mexico : State) --- antropología --- Yucatan --- México --- etnografía

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Among the Maya of Xculoc, an isolated farming village in the lowland forests of the Yucatán peninsula, children contribute to household production in considerable ways. Thus this village, the subject of anthropologist Karen Kramer's study, affords a remarkable opportunity for understanding the economics of childhood in a pre-modern agricultural setting. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and extensive data gathered over many years, Kramer interprets the form, value, and consequences of children's labor in this maize-based culture. She looks directly at family size and birth spacing as they figure in the economics of families; and she considers the timing of children's economic contributions and their role in underwriting the cost of large families. Kramer's findings--in particular, that the children of Xculoc begin to produce more than they consume long before they marry and leave home--have a number of interesting implications for the study of family reproductive decisions and parent-offspring conflict, and for debates within anthropology over children's contributions in hunter/gatherer versus agricultural societies. With its theoretical breadth, and its detail on crop yields, reproductive histories, diet, work scheduling, and agricultural production, this book sets a new standard for measuring and interpreting child productivity in a subsistence farming community.

Maya children --- Mayas --- Sustainable agriculture --- Low-input agriculture --- Low-input sustainable agriculture --- Lower input agriculture --- Resource-efficient agriculture --- Sustainable farming --- Agriculture --- Alternative agriculture --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Children, Maya --- Children --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Kinship --- Yucatán (Mexico : State) --- Yucatán (Mexico : Province) --- Quintana Roo (Mexico : State) --- Yucatan (Mexico : State)

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The Mexican state of Yucatán, with its strategically important location near the United States, Central America and the Caribbean, is one of the most dynamic regions in the OECD. Yucatán is also a land of contrasts. It is a lagging but growing region, offering a high quality of life and vast natural resources, yet suffering from problems of sustainability. Its tourism attractions are located in rural areas that do not benefit from them. It has both state and Peninsula medical services, but its health services coverage is uneven. Yucatan is a centre for higher education in the Peninsula, yet its graduates do not find jobs. It has a number of marginalised communities in fragmented administrative bodies, and although the Peninsular states share a common cultural heritage and attractiveness, their institutions do not co-operate.Clearly, Yucatán is not taking full advantage of its many resources, and in fact, challenges in the region threaten to undermine local assets. Among these is the need to upgrade activities to higher value-added innovation and design processes, and to foster primary activities to reach international markets. While the state government has proposed programmes to spur formalisation of the informal economy, measures such as better regulation, cutting red tape and providing employment opportunities and access to formal credit could have a greater impact. The lack of a shared, coherent long-term vision is a fundamental challenge to improving regional competitiveness and social cohesion in Yucatán. The OECD’s recommendations can only be part of a larger strategy to develop a collective vision of the state’s future.

Mexico -- Economic conditions. --- Mexico -- Economic policy. --- Regional planning -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State). --- Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Economic conditions. --- Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Economic policy. --- Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Social conditions. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Regional planning --- Yucatán (Mexico : State) --- Economic policy. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Regional development --- State planning --- Government policy --- Yucatán (Mexico : Province) --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Quintana Roo (Mexico : State) --- Yucatan (Mexico : State)

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How does Empire operate in frontiers and borderlands during times of conflict? Empire on Edge reveals how British officials attempted during the second half of the nineteenth century to understand and impose order on northern Belize, an area that was both a frontier of colonial power and the locus of a disputed border with Mexico. Their efforts were complicated by the local ramifications of Yucatán's Caste War (1847-1901), a long-lasting, violent struggle between segments of the indigenous Maya in southeast Mexico and the Mexican state. The book also illuminates how people subject to these efforts, especially the Hispanic and various Maya groups, sought to thwart them by building alliances across seemingly firm lines of racial and ethnic division. Along the way, important questions are raised about the dissonance between colonial and imperial projects, the nature of frontiers and borderlands, and the local effects of disputes between bordering countries.

Mayas --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Wars --- Belize --- Great Britain --- Yucatán (Mexico : State) --- History --- Colonies --- Administration --- Boundaries --- Yucatán (Mexico : Province) --- Quintana Roo (Mexico : State) --- Balize --- Belice --- Government of Belize --- Wilisi --- Beliz --- Беліз --- Belisa --- Белиз --- Република Белиз --- Republika Beliz --- Commonwealth of Belize --- Μπελίζε --- Belizo --- Belici --- Belis --- Bheilís --- Veleesh --- Beilise --- בליז --- Beliza --- Belizas --- Белизе --- ベリーズ --- Berīzu --- Beles --- Bilisi --- Белізе --- Belizi --- Bhelizi --- Belise --- Belisän --- Beliis --- בעליזע --- בּעליז --- Belėzos --- 伯利兹 --- Bolizi --- British Honduras

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From ancient Maya cities in Mexico and Central America to the Taj Mahal in India, cultural heritage sites around the world are being drawn into the wave of privatization that has already swept through such economic sectors as telecommunications, transportation, and utilities. As nation-states decide they can no longer afford to maintain cultural properties—or find it economically advantageous not to do so in the globalizing economy—private actors are stepping in to excavate, conserve, interpret, and represent archaeological and historical sites. But what are the ramifications when a multinational corporation, or even an indigenous village, owns a piece of national patrimony which holds cultural and perhaps sacred meaning for all the country's people, as well as for visitors from the rest of the world? In this ambitious book, Lisa Breglia investigates "heritage" as an arena in which a variety of private and public actors compete for the right to benefit, economically and otherwise, from controlling cultural patrimony. She presents ethnographic case studies of two archaeological sites in the Yucatán Peninsula—Chichén Itzá and Chunchucmil and their surrounding modern communities—to demonstrate how indigenous landholders, foreign archaeologists, and the Mexican state use heritage properties to position themselves as legitimate "heirs" and beneficiaries of Mexican national patrimony. Breglia's research masterfully describes the "monumental ambivalence" that results when local residents, excavation laborers, site managers, and state agencies all enact their claims to cultural patrimony. Her findings make it clear that informal and partial privatizations—which go on quietly and continually—are as real a threat to a nation's heritage as the prospect of fast-food restaurants and shopping centers in the ruins of a sacred site.

Maya --- Conservation. Restoration --- cultural heritage --- privatization --- cultural property --- History of civilization --- ethnicity --- Yucatán --- Mayas --- Cultural property --- Privatization --- Contracting out --- Ethnic identity. --- Government relations. --- Protection --- Government policy --- Yucatãn (Mexico : State) --- Ethnic relations. --- Antiquities --- Collection and preservation. --- Yucatán (Mexico : State) --- Maya [style] --- Contract services --- Contracting for services --- Outsourcing --- Services, Contracting for --- Letting of contracts --- Public contracts --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Yucatán (Mexico : Province) --- Quintana Roo (Mexico : State) --- Maya [culture or style] --- Yucatan (Mexico : State)