Global highlands : in context, in theory, and in practice -- Economic ideology in culture : oral tradition -- Economic ideology in petty industrial production : tailors of San Francisco el Alto -- Economic ideology in petty commodity agricultural production : gardeners of San Pedro Almolonga -- Economic ideology in the production of nontraditional agricultural export crops -- Economic ideology in industrial wage labor : from land to factory -- It takes work to shape our thinking : global Guatemala in local terms
Summary
In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of learning about Guatemala's changing economy
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index
