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Peter Hervik
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Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in the Yucatan (Studies in Anthropology and History) |
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Dutch |
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Hardcover |
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247 |
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1999-04-01 |
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9057023407 |
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Harwood Academic Publishers |
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1.32 pounds |
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6.22 x 9.06 x 0.79 inches |
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1 |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the external, academic categories of the Maya, and seeks to transcend the paradoxical and incongruent relationship between the social spaces that breathe life into the categories. The notion of "shared social experience" is introduced to embody a focus on reflexivity that goes beyond the subjective position of the author and helps demystify the coexisting subjectivities characteristic of ethnographic fieldwork. It provides a basis for overcoming the exclusive focus on "author," " text," and "discourse" in contemporary postmodernist ethnography, while still conveying important ethnographic information. Hervik pays close attention to the immediacy of fieldwork in examining the relationship between the local perceived, practiced meanings and the externa
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http://bookmooch.com/9057023407 |
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