Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity

From: The Americas | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Meisch, Lynn A | Copyright information

Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity. By Walter E. Little. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. x, 320. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth; $22.95 paper.

Globalization and tourism are on anthropologists' radar for good reason. Increasing global interconnectedness is changing, sometimes profoundly, the way we view ourselves and others. Little's book follows in the tradition of Graburn's 1976 volume on world ...

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