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On the Correct Training of Indios in the Handicraft Market at Chichén Itzá: Tactics and Tactility of Gender, Class, Race and State

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On the Correct Training of Indios in the Handicraft Market at Chichén Itzá: Tactics and Tactility of Gender, Class, Race and State
Author(s)Castaneda, Quetzil E.
AbstractIn 1983, an invasion by 300 vendors of food, beverage and artisanry began of the archaeological-touristic site of Chichén, Itzá, México; this provoked several crises. Here I consider one dimension of this crisis and conflictual situation that deals with the state attempt to impose control and proper order on the invading venders. This essay develops an analysis of the ambivalences and duplicitous dynamics of power so as to 1) reconsider the nature of hegemony, 2) to rethink the notion of resistance and return it to a de Certeauian problematic, and 3) to locate an analysis of governmentality between “top-down” and “bottom-up” narratives of the state through an analysis of the disciplinary and policing mechanisms.
IssueNo2
Pages106-143
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceJournal of Latin American Anthropology
VolumeNo2
PubDate1997
ISBN_ISSN1085-7052
Browse Path(s)Anthropology
—-Social/Cultural Anthropology
——–Political Practices, Organization, and Structure
————Anthropology and Public Policy


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