Yucatecan high society and Stephen Salisbury III : how intimate ties between transnational elites shaped Mayanist anthropology / Julio Hoil Gutiérrez -- Bad Spanish and worse Maya : on the performance of gringohood during the "Carnegie Age" / Fernando Armstrong-Fumero -- American idols : Bartolomé García Correa, US Americans and the transnational construction of modern Mayanism, 1925-1935 / Ben Fallaw -- Funding values in highland Chiapas : how Harvard anthropology naturalized the Mexican State / Matt Watson -- Distilling the past through the present : discussions with contemporary US rum makers for understanding nineteenth-century rum making in the Yucatan Peninsula / Jennifer Matthews and John Gust -- Indígenas and international influences of modern medicine in twentieth-century Guatemala / David Carey and Lydia Craft -- A cartography of tourist imaginaries / Bianet Castellanos -- The production and archiving of a design-driven Mayanness in hacienda tourism, Yucatán / Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
Summary
"The Transnational Construction of Mayanness explores how people from the US contributed to the construction of the Maya as an area of academic knowledge and affected the lives of the Maya peoples subject to anthropological research from the mid-nineteenth century to the present"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 26, 2023)
