Reckoning with Change in Yucatán
Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Reckoning with Change in Yucatán engages with how best to look upon and respond to change, arguing that this debate is an important arena for negotiating local belonging and a force of transformation in its own right. For residents of Chunchucmil, a historic rural community in Yucatán, Mexico, history is anything but straightforward. Living in what is both a defunct 19th-century hacienda estate and a vibrant Catholic pilgrimage site, Chunchucmileños reckon past, present, and future in radically different ways. For example, while some use the aging estate buildings to weave a history of economic decline and push for revitalization by hotel developers, others highlight the growing fame of the Virgin of the Rosary in the attached church and vow to defend the site from developer interference. By exploring how past and future are channeled through changing built environments, landscapes, sacred relics, and legal documents, this ethnographic study details how the politics of change provide Chunchucmileños with a common language for debating commitments to place and each another in the present. Against Western notions of 'History' as a relatively coherent account of change, the book suggests we reframe it as an ongoing performance that is always fractured, democratic, and morally tinged.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Of Sheep, Saliva, and Broken Bones: Antisocial Appetites and the ‘Things of the Ancestors’
- 3 Patrimonio, Consumption, and Gossip
- 4 “Division in Chunchucmil”: Narratives of Rupture and Redevelopment
- 5 “The Paper Talks”
- 6 A Church Grows in Yucatán
- 7 Chunchucmil’s Two Virgins: Reckoning with Excess Growth
- 8 “You Don’t Know How It Came to Be”: Dueños, Historical ‘Knowledge,’ and Belonging
- 9 Conclusion
- 10 Coda
- Index