Reckoning with Change in Yucatán

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.

Jason Ramsey is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada. He received his M.A. and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.

1. Introduction 2. Of Sheep, Saliva, and Broken Bones: Anti-social 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: The Immaculate Reproduction and the Excesses of Growth 8. "You Don't Know How it Came to Be": Dueños, 'Knowledge' and Belonging 9. Conclusion 10 Coda